"I read a poem every night, as others read a prayer."

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Source : "Voice of the Maghreb" by Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. May 5, 2006.

Tahar Ben Jelloun

#Prayer Quotes #Night Quotes #Praying Quotes

“What birds can have their bills more peculiarly formed than the ibis, the spoonbill, and the heron?”
“all that time hanging around the sets, watching Norma Shearer make the most of her three expressions, was a help.”
“I worry about being a fogy and just writing for orchestras. Like, really, I should be doing more electronic stuff, I feel. Laptops as part of the orchestra, and installation sound, and speakers.”
“For there is but one problem - the problem of human relations. We forget that there is no hope or joy except in human relations.”
“A tree is a self: it is 'unseen shaping' more than it is leaves or bark, roots or cellulose or fruit ... What this means is that we must address trees as we must address all things, confronting them in the awareness that we are in the presence of numinous mystery.”
“Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.”
“The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.”
“Imaginations blossom amidst memories. One judiciously separates them - but is there really any point in that? Doesn't truth suffer when one amputates it from its context of dreams?”

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