I held you in the square And felt the evening Re-order itself around Your smile.
BEN OKRIOur time here is magic! It’s the only space you have to realize whatever it is that is beautiful, whatever is true, whatever is great, whatever is potential, whatever is rare, whatever is unique, in. It’s the only space.
More Ben Okri Quotes
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There ought to be three traditions in the art of humanity: the realistic, the visionary and the wild.
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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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I learned that life will go through changes – up and down and up again. It’s what life does.
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Only those who truly love and who are truly strong can sustain their lives as a dream. You dwell in your own enchantment.
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The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.
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The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell.
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Life throws stones at you, but your love and your dream change those stones into the flowers of discovery. Even if you lose, or are defeated by things, your triumph will always be exemplary. And if no one knows it, then there are places that do.
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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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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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When you stop inventing reality then you see things as they really are.
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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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Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.
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Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.
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People that don’t exist, places you’ve never visited, enigmatic fates, all come to life in the mind, painted into existence by the reader’s creative powers. In this way the creativity of the writer calls up the creativity of the reader. Reading is never passive.
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Stories are the secret reservoir of values: change the stories individuals and nations live by and tell themselves, and you change the individuals and nations.
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