Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words.


Tahar Ben Jelloun

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By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes.
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I love life in spite of all that mars it. I love friendship, jokes and laughter.
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We must have our say, not through violence, aggression or fear. We must speak out calmly and forcefu...
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Be vigilant, for nothing one achieves lasts forever.
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I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know th...
TAHAR BEN JELLOUN
Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.
TAHAR BEN JELLOUN
Intellectuals try to keep going. But their situation is very difficult. Those who have had the coura...
TAHAR BEN JELLOUN
An individual voice can be heard in a choir that otherwise sings in unison. This is something that i...
TAHAR BEN JELLOUN
We must stop posing as victims of the West and behaving negatively towards the West. We must partici...
TAHAR BEN JELLOUN
In Morocco, it's possible to see the Atlantic and the Mediterranean at the same time.
TAHAR BEN JELLOUN
I have written about the dispossessed, immigrants, the condition of women who do not enjoy the same ...
TAHAR BEN JELLOUN
Emigration is no longer a solution; it's a defeat. People are risking death, drowning every day,...
TAHAR BEN JELLOUN
We have no Arab intellectuals of international stature because we live in a state of generalized med...
TAHAR BEN JELLOUN
The mistake we make is to attribute to religions the errors and fanaticism of human beings.
TAHAR BEN JELLOUN
I am a guest of the French language. My poems in French are born of my interaction with the French l...
TAHAR BEN JELLOUN
ردّد في سرِّك إن الصمت مريحٌ لك وللآخرين ، وبخاصةً الآخ...
TAHAR BEN JELLOUN
إن أكثر الأمور الاعتيادية تفاهةً، تصبح في المحن العصيب...
TAHAR BEN JELLOUN
في تلك اللحظة عشت هنيهات من الطمأنينة الغامرة. فما عاد �...
TAHAR BEN JELLOUN
My characters are driven by a passionate desire for justice. They are rebellious and incorruptible.
TAHAR BEN JELLOUN
Did my father talk to me? It's true, he didn't say a lot to me, but I knew what had to be done. No n...
TAHAR BEN JELLOUN
A modern civilization is only possible when it is accepted that singular beings exist and express th...
TAHAR BEN JELLOUN
كم يسعدني فكرة أن تناجيني على رغم أنني لن أستطيع سماعك �...
TAHAR BEN JELLOUN
My hope is that countries like Morocco will have investment to create work, so people don't have...
TAHAR BEN JELLOUN
This universe can very well be expressed in words and syllables which are not those of one's mot...
TAHAR BEN JELLOUN
Man is more noble dead than alive, because in returning to the earth he becomes earth, and nothing i...
TAHAR BEN JELLOUN
New ideas should confront old ideas. We must refer to the example of Europe. People have fought to m...
TAHAR BEN JELLOUN
الضوء يفتح القلوب ويشرح الصدور . أنه علامة بهجة . أنه عل�...
TAHAR BEN JELLOUN
Wir hatten keine Namen mehr, weder Vergangenheit noch Zukunft.
TAHAR BEN JELLOUN
I liked Sartre's views but not his writing.
TAHAR BEN JELLOUN
وحده الكذّاب يحلف بأنه لا يكذب
TAHAR BEN JELLOUN
Une femme qui pleure et te demande de la protéger c’est Grandiose
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TAHAR BEN JELLOUN
I have at least the whole of my life to answer a question: Who am I? And who is the other? A gust of...
TAHAR BEN JELLOUN
The books brought brilliance to my life, and they brought an understanding: Life is a story. Everyth...
RENE DENFELD
Poetry is the special medium of spiritual crazy wisdom, the form of expression that comes closest to...
WES ''SCOOP'' NISKER
Be careful of relying on the opinion of others, these are the same people that like liver.
NANETTE L. AVERY
Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.
ALBERT EINSTEIN
Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.
MAX WILHELM DEHN
I'm a thinker. That is what I do, in great depth and detail, every waking moment of the day. I like ...
BRIAN HERBERT
Unification of differences is power.
SHESH NATH VERNWAL
Life is a re-discovery.
BRIAN BLESSED
If you think that life is a celebration full of party poppers and merry go rounds it's not it's a ga...
GARY F EVANS...
Life Is a Misconception.
DEYTH BANGER
Life is a desire!
DEYTH BANGER
To trust someone you must firstly remember that it is a two way street that will go all the way if y...
GARY F EVANS...
It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER
The highest form of pure thought is in mathematics
PLATO
The relationship between mathematics & English is like the relationship between Islam & Christianity...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.
TONI MORRISON
The Fever Bird

The fever bird sand out last night.
I could not sleep, try as I might...
VIKRAM SETH
Thus, in a sense, mathematics has been most advanced by those who distinguished themselves by intuit...
FELIX KLEIN
She was scarcely a year older than I was, dark-haired, slender, with a face that would break your he...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
The inscription on his gravestone had felt so wholly insufficient the moment she saw it. Just a name...
STUART NADLER
My relationship stays strong because I serenade her with my actions and I write poetry in her heart ...
STEVE MARABOLI
Puns are a form of humor with words.
GUILLERMO CABRERA INFANTE
...red sings like summer in the shadows, hot on my tongue...
NELL GREY
Contrary to popular mythology, not all NFL cheerleaders are bimbos or strippers or bored pretty girl...
JEANNE MARIE LASKAS
For me, my life is a journey.
JAY ELECTRONICA
Obedience is bondage, if God wants to be adored he should make himself more loving.
LAURA WHITCOMB
If thinking is your fate, revere this fate with divine honour and sacrifice to it the best, the most...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
Life is a divine blessing for those who live life to add values in the lives of others.
SEEMA BRAIN OPENERS
Every relationship between persons causes a picture of each to take form in the mind of the other, a...
GEORG SIMMEL
Love isn't the work of the tender and the gentle;
Love is the work of wrestlers.
The one w...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception...
SAM HARRIS
Life is a risk.
CARMELO ANTHONY
Someone is always there to love you no matter what happens in life. That person is you. Take a break...
STEVEN CUOCO
Be grateful for every moment and every breath.
TERESA COLLINS
Poetry is breathing words that gives a reader pause.
ANKITA SINGHAL
Without music, life is a journey through a desert.
PAT CONROY
Life is a journey. When we stop, things don't go right.
POPE FRANCIS
Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM
They've had a great relationship with the CHL over a number of years. They've done other sites and c...
HAYNE ELLIS
I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship...
NATASHA TRETHEWEY
I'm not saying that I'm better than anyone... I'm just saying that I'm one-of-a-kind.
C LIONG
A person of value have skill, a vision & a deep desire to achieve what they dream for. Happiness com...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA
A man of guilt acknowledges and changes himself immediately on being hinted slightly about his fault...
ANUJ SOMANY
The school year progressed slowly. I felt as if I had been in the sixth grade for years, yet it was ...
LUCY GREALY
The value of a consultant;An outsider can see what an insider cannot see or has decided to ignore.
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A family is like a card game, on one hand, you can get a really bad hand and on the other, your hand...
GARY F EVANS...
The worth of a person’s quote is in his or her heart where it takes the birth and the value of the...
ANUJ SOMANY
Walking the rugged trail of the unknown destiny can be filled with walls crashing and cracks on the ...
GARY F EVANS...
It makes you wonder why the human race can be so selfish and self-centered sometimes, when on cold w...
GARY F EVANS...
To have a pet in the family is to invite good health into your lives.It brings happiness to all and ...
GARY F EVANS...
I can see you have a great deal of water in your personality. Water never waits. It changes shape an...
ARTHUR GOLDEN
كنت أصمت أذعن لمصيري. أحمل دميتي,أنزع ملابسها, أشد شعره�...
مليكة مستظرف
The norm which the society at large has set today categorically is in the form of preventive measure...
HENRIETTA NEWTON MARTIN LEGAL CONSULTANT
If you care about trends and ideas or the words and images that bring them to life, then you know ma...
EDWARD BOCHES
I don’t know what message to send to Bran. Help him Tyrion.”
“What help could I give him?...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
Bhulaney ke liay bhi tujhy yaad tu kerna hoga,
Magar her yaad se hain wabasta teri hazaar baata...
HUSEYN RAZA
The difference between the poet and the mathematician is that the poet tries to get his head into th...
G.K. CHESTERTON
Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and p...
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL
Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded ...
PAUL ENGLE
This is a highly interdependent relationship now, much more so than it's ever been.
DAVID ZWEIG
Ladies,Please dress how you would like to be approached and talked to. Don't dress like a hoe and ex...
UNKNOWN
Interdependent Thinking is a true system view of the world.
PEARL ZHU
„Ein Mensch kann niemals Tier werden, er stürzt am Tier vorbei in den Abgrund
MARLEN HAUSHOFER
Stephen picks up on Armstrong's pier, and calls Kingstown pier "a disappointed bridge" (2.22)...
JAMES JOYCE
I am a Dancer; rehearsing the steps of our unheard song with utmost perfection.
Never will you...
RANJANI RAMACHANDRAN
If we ask a vague question, such as, 'What is poetry?' we expect a vague answer, such as, &#...
A. R. AMMONS
Life is a school of probability.
WALTER BAGEHOT

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Happiness is a journey not a destination.
BEN SWEETLAND
You look like gold. I've been fooled before, but now I know I've made the mistake in the pas...
BEN HARPER
If you go and talk to most people, they mean well but they don't have much of a breadth on educa...
BEN CARSON
Success is a journey, not a destination.
BEN SWEETLAND
We must have the courage to allow a little disorder in our lives.
BEN WEININGER
No one will do it for you.
BEN STEIN
I try and reduce myself to an almost blank slate and hope to God that I am creative.
BEN KINGSLEY
I lost my own son (Steven) at 18, five years ago, in a car accident, so I can really sympathize with...
BEN HECHT
People's sex habits are as well known in Hollywood as their political opinions, and much less critic...
BEN HECHT
I have written a raucous valentine to a poet's dream and agony.
BEN HECHT
In Hollywood, a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not actively employed in a bro...
BEN HECHT
Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety
BEN HECHT
Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of fantastic bravo...
BEN HECHT
Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away.
BEN HECHT
Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
BEN HECHT
Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety.
BEN HECHT
Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the...
BEN HECHT
There is no sudden leap into the stratosphere. There is only advancing step by step, slowly and tort...
BEN STEIN
I was tempted to tell her it was because we were British and actually had a sense of humour, but I t...
BEN AARONOVITCH
But I do hate him as I hate the devil.
BEN JONSON
You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot
BEN STEIN
If he were To be made honest by an act of parliament I should not alter in my faith of him.
BEN JONSON
Laugh, and be fat, sir, your penance is known. They that love mirth, let them heartily drink, ...
BEN JONSON
Genius without education is like silver in the mine. -Ben Franklin.
BEN FRANKLIN
Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
BEN FRANKLIN
It's just kind of surreal. We're trying not to think too far ahead but we know we have a lot of work...
BEN LINDSEY
than any other man who ever ran for office in Denver.
BEN LINDSEY
Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something ha...
BEN LINDSEY
Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something h...
BEN LINDSEY
Do your best and let God do the rest.
BEN CARSON
Force works on servile natures, not the free.
BEN JOHNSON
Opportunities pop up for everybody all of the time. It's the way that we progress. It's whether or n...
BEN BROWN
We want books that make our hearts beat harder... that relieve us of the agonizing burden of everyda...
BEN OLIVEIRA
Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.
BEN OKRI
Happiness doesn't result from what we get, but from what we give.
BEN CARSON
'Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to beg...
BEN JONSON
Bad people excuse their faults; wise people leave them.
BEN JOHNSTON
Wonder if there is life on another planet? Let's suppose there is. Suppose further, that only one st...
BEN SWEETLAND
The greatest waste in the world is the difference between what we are and what we could become.
BEN HERBSTER
Somewhere there is a map of how it can be done.
BEN STEIN
In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.
BEN HECHT
You've got to make haste while it's still light of day. My godmother used to say, I don't want to ru...
BEN VEREEN
Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
BEN JOHNSON
No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may ...
BEN JOHNSON
He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity
BEN JONSON
I think it's probably honest to say that there's a certain powerful stillness that I remember admiri...
BEN KINGSLEY
I play golf with friends sometimes, but there are never friendly games.
BEN HOGAN
Running for money doesn't make you run fast. It makes you run first.
BEN JIPCHO