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. (Tahar Ben Jelloun)

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.

Tahar Ben Jelloun

Related topics

born french guest interaction language poet

Related quotes

To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime. View quote
Erich Fromm
Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent. View quote
James Baldwin
The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power. View quote
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal but which the reader recognizes as his own. View quote
Salvatore Quasimodo
Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it. View quote
Thomas Carlyle