I don't feel guilty about expressing myself in French; nor do I feel that I am continuing the work of the colonizers.
From Tahar Ben Jelloun
I do not use the language of my people. I can take liberties with certain themes which the Arabic language would not allow me to take.
For me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history.
Poetry is not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each other; it is something which goes much further than that to provide a glimpse of our vision of the world.
I am a guest of the French language. My poems in French are born of my interaction with the French language, which is not the same as that of a French poet.
Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words.
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