Famous Quotes

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

Tahar Ben Jelloun on Relationship

More quotes about Relationship

• "You can't stop loving or wanting to love because when its right it's the best thing in the world. When you're in a relationship and its good, even if nothing else in your life is right, you feel like your whole world is complete."

  Keith Sweat on Relationship

• "Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul."

  Mahatma Gandhi on Relationship

• "One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives."

  Euripides on Relationship

• "Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods."

  Denis Waitley on Relationship

• "You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity."

  Epicurus on Relationship

More quotes by Tahar Ben Jelloun

• "People must insist on the right to say no, to be alone, to stand out from the herd. Creative artists can say all this in their own way and in their own field, by hard, rigorous work."

• "Beauty is first and foremost an emotion."

• "I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity."

• "Intellectuals try to keep going. But their situation is very difficult. Those who have had the courage to voice their opposition have often paid a very high price."

• "Emigration is no longer a solution it's a defeat. People are risking death, drowning every day, but they're knocking on doors that are not open."