Mr. Erdogan himself was once imprisoned for reciting a religiously inspired poem in public.
At 19, she was reported to a Communist party secretary for reciting banned poetry.
(Actually cashews, according to the menu. But not bad for reciting from memory).
His predilection for reciting lines of Robert Frost — "some say the world will end in FIRE!" — was unappreciative and unliterary.
He settles for reciting a few homilies: "Love is the net where hearts are caught like fish".
"So you'd detain people for reciting poems?" the reporter asked, as noted by the blog Chtodelat News.
Mr. Brodie, who continued acting, was known locally for reciting risqué limericks and breeding daffodils, as his father had.
This charged moment provides the occasion for reciting a one-line blessing of God, "who makes the work of creation".
Another signature they have discovered and preserved is that of DeWitt Hopper, the actor famous for reciting the poem "Casey at the Bat".
Liao, who served four years in prison for reciting "Massacre," his poem about Tiananmen Square, has been barred, by his count, thirteen times from travelling abroad.
Masked police arrested Ayat at her home on 30 March for reciting a poem criticising the monarchy during a pro-democracy rally in the capital Manama in February.
