To sustain your belief through situations that completely undermine it is quite something.
BEN OKRII’m conscious of a series of circles working its way through my life. And at this particular moment I have come round to the beginning of my writing cycle. It begins with poetry. There’s hardly a day that goes past on which I don’t write poetry.
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Don’t neglect the gold in your own back yard.
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I went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and Shakespeare.
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Creativity is the art of the impossible
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People like you enrich the dreams of the worlds, and it is dreams that create history. People like you are unknowing transformers of things, protected by your own fairy-tale, by love.
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I was going to be a scientist.
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The greatest religions convert the world through stories.
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This is what you must be like. Grow wherever life puts you down.
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Who knows, maybe this whole planet is an asylum, a penal realm. A place for hard cases.
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One of the greatest gifts my father gave me – unintentionally – was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity.
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The worst realities of our age are manufactured realities. It is therefore our task, as creative participants in the universe, to re dream our world. The fact of possessing imagination means that everything can be re dreamed. Each reality can have it
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If we are true, if we can love, if we have vision, if we can have courage, we can, we should, we ought to, we will.
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When chaos is the god of an era, clamorous music is the deity’s chief instrument.
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Don’t try and press it down. Don’t hide from it. Don’t escape. It is life too. It is truth. But it will pass and time will put a strange honey in the bitterness. That’s the way life goes.
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Destiny plans a different route, or turns the dream around, as if it were a riddle, and fulfills the dream in ways we couldn’t have expected.
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Painters ought to be mute. Speech is the enemy of expression.
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