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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Painters ought to be mute. Speech is the enemy of expression.
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We have not yet arrived, but every point at which we stop requires a re-definition of our destination.
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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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This is what you must be like. Grow wherever life puts you down.
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Don’t neglect the gold in your own back yard.
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We can still astonish the gods in humanity And be the stuff of future legends, If we but dare to be real, And have the courage to see That this is the time to dream The best dream of them all.
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Reading, therefore, is a co-production between writer and reader. The simplicity of this tool is astounding. So little, yet out of it whole worlds, eras, characters, continents, people never encountered before, people you wouldn’t care to sit next to in a train.
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In the beginning there was a river. The river became a road and the road branched out to the whole world. And because the road was once a river it was always hungry.
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Destiny plans a different route and fulfills the dream in ways we couldn’t have expected.
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Maybe there are only three kinds of stories: those we live, those we tell, and those that help our souls fly upwards to a greater life.
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I held you in the square And felt the evening Re-order itself around Your smile.
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Creativity is the art of the impossible
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I was going to be a scientist.
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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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To see the madness and yet walk a perfect silver line. … That’s what the true story-teller should be: a great guide, a clear mind, who can walk a silver line in hell or madness.
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