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.
BEN OKRII went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and Shakespeare.
More Ben Okri Quotes
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One way or another we are living the stories planted in us early or along the way, or we are also living the stories we planted – knowingly or unknowingly – in ourselves. We live stories that either give our lives meaning or negate it with meaninglessness. If we change the stories we live by, quite possibly we change our lives.’
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A man’s greatest battles are the ones he fights within himself.
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Our 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.
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Wholeness is the enemy of the artist. We ought to be broken, ruined in some way.
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The greatest religions convert the world through stories.
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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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I am not fighting for success, just to get more beauty out of myself and share it with more people.
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The whole of human history is an undiscovered continent deep in our souls. There are dolphins, plants that dream, magic birds inside us. The sky is inside us. The earth is in us.
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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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A man must be able to hold his drink because drunkenness is sometimes necessary in this difficult life.
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Don’t read what everyone else is reading. Check them out later, cautiously.
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a dream can be the highest point of a life
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An inner darkness is darker than an outer darkness.
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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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People are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves.
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