Every night Quote by Tahar Ben Jelloun Download Open image “I read a poem every night, as others read a prayer.” — Tahar Ben Jelloun ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Every night Night Poetry Prayer
I do read a poem almost every morning. Unless I'm really, really late, I have to get my poem in. — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
I'm not very good at praying, but what I experience when I'm writing a poem is close to prayer. — Denise Levertov Copy Share Image
I have morning prayers and a nighttime reflection. I also read the Bible daily. — Roma Downey Copy Share Image
I read poetry every day. I love the boiled down essence of poetry. I look for poetry in prose. In a way that evocative. — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
Read poems to yourself in the middle of the night. Turn on a single lamp and read them while you're alone in an otherwise… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
I have never separated the writing of poetry from prayer. I have grown up believing it is a vocation, a religious vocation. — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre. — Tahar Ben Jelloun Copy Share Image
“A novel related in a dungeon, in the presence of death, cannot have the same meaning, the same consequences, as it would when read… — Tahar Ben Jelloun Copy Share Image
This universe can very well be expressed in words and syllables which are not those of one's mother tongue. — Tahar Ben Jelloun Copy Share Image
The intellectual, the man of thought, doubt and analysis, should give the best of himself. — Tahar Ben Jelloun Copy Share Image
I'd thought sexuality was instinctive or natural, but it's profoundly linked to inner security and cultural context. — Tahar Ben Jelloun Copy Share Image
I don't feel guilty about expressing myself in French; nor do I feel that I am continuing the work of the colonizers. — Tahar Ben Jelloun Copy Share Image
Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl. — Tahar Ben Jelloun Copy Share Image
Our steps invent the path as we proceed; behind us they leave no trace, only the void. So we shall always look ahead and… — Tahar Ben Jelloun Copy Share Image
“Man is more noble dead than alive, because in returning to the earth he becomes earth, and nothing is nobler than the earth that… — Tahar ben Jelloun Copy Share Image
People must insist on the right to say no, to be alone, to stand out from the herd. Creative artists can say all this… — Tahar Ben Jelloun Copy Share Image
“I practice Dying--every night-- But have not learned to, still-- Though Talented--by Mortal bones-- For such a common Skill.” — Alan W. Powers Copy Share Image
“You can date every girl in town as far as I’m concerned. I hate you. I pray every night that you’ll fall victim to… — Kim Harrington Copy Share Image
“Maybe I'd absorbed the capacity to hurt someone by listening to my parents every night, who were under the impression that turning the volume… — Charles Yu Copy Share Image
I'm always looking at new ways to tell a joke so that it doesn't get stale while working on new jokes every night or… — Bill Burr Copy Share Image
“When at last we arrived in Mannheim, I found that my apartment had been rented to a family whose young son was an amputee.… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Suppresed I Rise Copy Share Image
I don't know if I've come of age, but I'm certainly older now. I feel shrunken, as if there's a tiny ancient Oliver Tate… — Joe Dunthorne Copy Share Image
“It suddenly seemed to Laurel that all the absences in her own life, every loss and sadness, every nightmare in the dark, every unexplained… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
“Her silent singing wrapped around the story she was telling herself, which she extended further every night on the deck. (Averill often told herself… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
“I have heard several people justify working long hours and getting home from work late it night by saying things like, “I have to… — Daniel Willey Copy Share Image
Every night I go to sleep smiling, even when I have a bad day. I'm just thankful that God allowed me to live it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I'm going to lay it out straight for you here, Carson. And the reason that I'm going to do that is because I have… — Mia Sheridan Copy Share Image
I do remember what I said. The promise. To protect her. If I'd done that ... even if I didn't make it, you wouldn't've… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
