“We look up to see if it is day or night. If stars burn cool and moon does shine, We take to smoke divine and wine. If breath of sun does belch its heat, we boil coffee and prepare to eat.” NightSunFoodBalanceMoonSeasonsWineDrinkingCoffeeSmokeSmokingDayAfricaRomanStoicEatRoman PayneTimesMoroccoArabicPayneNorth AfricaMoroccanMarrakechMarrakesh Author:Roman Payne
“POEM FOR SOUKAÏNA” **** To tell of my new Moroccan Love, Ô, I court her everyday. But just as a pearl in the mud is a pearl, So is my Love just an Arab girl… in that I offer her constant, loving woos, but she’ll ask me in return that I give her flooze*. That’s when I kiss her and shrug, and I say, “Someday.” And she gives me her love free anyway. * * * Ô, my Love is a child of the souks. In Casablanca born. A gypsy thief, “Soukaïna” named. We met in the souks of Marrakech, It was here my heart she tamed. Ô, she came at nineteen to Marrakech, In search of wild fun. And she lived in Marrakech seven years, Before my heart she won.” Love StoryArabic PoetryMoroccoArabicSaharaMoroccanMarrakechMarrakeshNorth African PoetrySaharan Author:Roman Payne
“Being the Novelist-in-Residence at a riad hotel in the kasbah of an Arabic North African city is a lot like trying to write one’s memoirs on shreds of napkins in a nuthouse.” WritersExplorationBook QuotesWriters On WritingTravel WritingWriters QuotesWriters And WritingWriters LifeBook QuoteRoman PayneWriters InspirationWriters WorldExploration QuotesMedinaSahara DesertTravel QuoteMarrakechThe Writing LifeBook Quote Of OneselfMarrakeshThe Writing ProcessArabesqueMoroccan LiteratureRoman Payne QuotesMarrakech QuoteMarrakesh QuoteMorocco QuoteMorrocanSaharan SoliloquyThe Arabesque Author:Roman Payne
“There is a Cinzano on the table beside me and a siphon of aerated water. I am at a loss to know how ants have got into the siphon. Neither the ants themselves nor the people who filled the siphons can have intended this.” TravelTravel WritingMoroccoTangierMarrakechMarrakesh Author:Peter Mayne
“I thought that perhaps the most creative mix for a society would be nine parts solid worker from institutions like MIT to one part poet from Marrakech, but in spite of the fact that I myself had been trained to be one of the solid workers, which meant that all of my sympathies lay with that group, I would not surrender the poet. The problem was to find him.” FactsProblemWould BeCreativeGroupsPoetInstitutionsLaysWorkersSurrenderNineSpiteMy SympathyMitMarrakech Author:James A. Michener
“It doesn't matter if you're photographing a porter in a market in Marrakech or you're photographing the king of Morroco. You have the same sympathetic approach to everybody. You be nice to everybody, basically.” IfsMatterNiceKingsApproachPhotographyBeing NiceSympatheticMarrakech Author:Albert Watson
“I am the son of poor peasants who came at a very young age to live in Algeria. I only recently saw the place where they were born, near the city of Marrakech.” AgeYoungBornPoorCitiesSawsSonYoung AgePeasantsAlgeriaMarrakech Author:Ahmed Ben Bella
“I believe that Marrakech ought to be earned as a destination. The journey is the preparation for the experience. Reaching it too fast derides it, makes it a little less easy to understand.” BelieveLittlesI BelieveEasyJourneyOughtPreparationReachingDestinationMarrakech Book:In Arabian Nights Source: In Arabian Nights