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
BEN OKRIWe have fallen into this very mean description of humanity. Naturalism in fiction is too reductive in its definition of human beings.
More Ben Okri Quotes
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I’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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If we could be pure dancers in spirit we would never be afraid to love, and we would love with strength and wisdom.
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The acknowledged legislators of the world take the world as given. They dislike mysteries, for mysteries cannot be coded, or legislated, and wonder cannot be made into law. And so these legislators police the accepted frontiers of things.
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We are living in enchanted time. With our spirits right.
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What hope is there for individual reality or authenticity when the forces of violence and orthodoxy, the earthly powers of guns and bombs and manipulated public opinion make it impossible for us to be authentic and fulfilled human beings?
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We plan our lives according to a dream that came to us in our childhood, and we find that life alters our plans. And yet, at the end, from a rare height, we also see that our dream was our fate. It’s just that providence had other ideas as to how we would get there.
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When chaos is the god of an era, clamorous music is the deity’s chief instrument.
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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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To anyone who is homeless, I say, find a home.
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Success will never confuse you of scatter your spirit, but will make you fly higher into the good sunlight. Your life will always surprise you.
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I am not fighting for success, just to get more beauty out of myself and share it with more people.
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A man’s greatest battles are the ones he fights within himself.
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Without stories we would go mad. Life would lose its moorings or lose its orientations. even in silence we are living our stories
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The higher the artist, the fewer the gestures. The fewer the tools, the greater the imagination. The greater the will, the greater the secret failure.
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Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.
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