My hope is that countries like Morocco will have investment to create work, so people don't have to leave.

In Morocco, it's possible to see the Atlantic and the Mediterranean at the same time.

Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.

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.

New ideas should confront old ideas. We must refer to the example of Europe. People have fought to make Europe what it is today. Freedom is not something that is served up on a plate.

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.