Poetry looking in the mirror sees art, and art looking in a mirror sings poetry.
ABERJHANIHis [Ben Okri’s] work poses very serious questions for the twenty-first century. Among them:
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Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela might be measured in part by the profound and unique gestures made by people in different countries to honor his life upon learning of his death.
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Terrorism, and political chaos that have characterized the beginning of the 21st Century.
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Within the universe of the extraordinary, those qualities we designate to human concepts of gender are often shared, exchanged, or even completely obliterated.
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The reality of a serious writer is a reality of many voices, some of them belonging to the writer, some of them belonging to the world of readers at large.
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The books are also a part of what I call the great continuum of spiritual literary dialogue that I feel has been in progress since human beings
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Until the past ten years, many defined the period primarily by its well-known literary, musical, and artistic elements while overlooking the fact there was any political component to it at all.
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Got just enough room to be a friend of yours. Oh I hope you got room to be a friend of mine.
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Love is our most unifying and empowering common spiritual denominator.
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I place my fingers upon these keys typing 2,000 dreams per minute and naked of spirit dance forth my cosmic vortex upon this crucifix called language.
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The study of history empowers nations and individuals with an ability to avoid errors of the past and lay foundations for victories in the future.
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What more civilized way for people to alleviate the same than by giving themselves to one another as brothers and sisters in deed as well as in word?
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A poet is a verb that blossoms light in gardens of dawn, or sometimes midnight.
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While it is unlikely that poetry or art shall eliminate the reality of war in the twenty-first century, it is thrilling to know there remain individuals, and even entire communities,
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Life’s beginnings, along with all the muted and explosive moments that surface between the two extremes.
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Looking at certain illuminated corners of or cracks within the mirror, the author can see fragments of an objective reality that comprise the physical universe, social communities, political dynamics,
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