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Ben Okri Quotes

A dream can be the highest point of a life Picture Quote #1

This is what you must be like. Grow wherever life puts you down Picture Quote #1

To anyone who is homeless, I say, find a home Picture Quote #1

The greatest religions convert the world through stories Picture Quote #1

Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger Picture Quote #1

I was going to be a scientist Picture Quote #1

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Politics is the art of the possible; creativity is the art of the impossible Picture Quote #1

Beware of the stories you read or tell; subtly, at night, beneath the waters of consciousness, they are altering your world Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

This earth that we live on is full of stories in the same way that, for a fish, the ocean is full of ocean. Some people say when we are born we’re born into stories. I say we’re also born from stories Picture Quote #1

There ought to be three traditions in the art of humanity: the realistic, the visionary and the wild Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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Wholeness is the enemy of the artist. We ought to be broken, ruined in some way Picture Quote #1

A people are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves. Sick storytellers can make nations sick. Without stories we would go mad. Life would lose it’s moorings or orientation... Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart larger Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering Picture Quote #1

Don’t despair too much if you see beautiful things destroyed, if you see them perish. Because the best things are always growing in secret Picture Quote #1

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I am not fighting for success, just to get more beauty out of myself and share it with more people Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Reading, like writing, is a creative act. If readers only bring a narrow range of themselves to the book, then they’ll only see their narrow range reflected in it Picture Quote #1

The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell Picture Quote #1

The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing Picture Quote #1

We have fallen into this very mean description of humanity. Naturalism in fiction is too reductive in its definition of human beings Picture Quote #1

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The best writing is not about the writer, the best writing is absolutely not about the writer, it’s about us, it’s about the reader Picture Quote #1

We can redream this world and make the dream come real. Human beings are gods hidden from themselves Picture Quote #1

There is a kind of expressed love which is easy to subvert. When a figure is loved for their deeds, their conquests, their heroism, their goodness, their love of the people, these are easy enough to destroy... But there is a kind of love which is felt for apparently no reason... A love, inspired, it seems, by the gods, which it is impossible to fight, distort, destroy, or weaken. In fact, the attempts to destroy such loves only strengthen them. And to do nothing allows them to continue to grow at their natural pace, inexoribly, till this love becomes a wide and silent adoration Picture Quote #1

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. Destiny plans a different route, or turns the dream around, as if it were a riddle, and fulfills the dream in ways we couldn’t have expected Picture Quote #1

It is not important for me as a writer that you leave a piece of writing of mine with either an agreement or even a resonance with what I have said. What is important is that you leave with the resonance of what you have felt and what you thought in reaction to that Picture Quote #1

If we could be pure dancers in spirit we would never be afraid to love, and we would love with strength and wisdom Picture Quote #1

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A dream can be the highest point of a life (Ben Okri Quotes) This is what you must be like. Grow wherever life puts you down (Ben Okri Quotes) To anyone who is homeless, I say, find a home (Ben Okri Quotes) The greatest religions convert the world through stories (Ben Okri Quotes) Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger (Ben Okri Quotes) I was going to be a scientist (Ben Okri Quotes) Politics is the art of the possible; creativity is the art of the impossible (Ben Okri Quotes) Beware of the stories you read or tell; subtly, at night, beneath the waters of consciousness, they are altering your world (Ben Okri Quotes) 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 (Ben Okri Quotes) This earth that we live on is full of stories in the same way that, for a fish, the ocean is full of ocean. Some people say when we are born we’re born into stories. I say we’re also born from stories (Ben Okri Quotes) There ought to be three traditions in the art of humanity: the realistic, the visionary and the wild (Ben Okri Quotes) 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 (Ben Okri Quotes) Wholeness is the enemy of the artist. We ought to be broken, ruined in some way (Ben Okri Quotes) A people are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves. Sick storytellers can make nations sick. Without stories we would go mad. Life would lose it’s moorings or orientation... Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart larger (Ben Okri Quotes) 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 Okri Quotes) 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 (Ben Okri Quotes) The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering (Ben Okri Quotes) Don’t despair too much if you see beautiful things destroyed, if you see them perish. Because the best things are always growing in secret (Ben Okri Quotes) I am not fighting for success, just to get more beauty out of myself and share it with more people (Ben Okri Quotes) 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 (Ben Okri Quotes) Reading, like writing, is a creative act. If readers only bring a narrow range of themselves to the book, then they’ll only see their narrow range reflected in it (Ben Okri Quotes) The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell (Ben Okri Quotes) The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing (Ben Okri Quotes) We have fallen into this very mean description of humanity. Naturalism in fiction is too reductive in its definition of human beings (Ben Okri Quotes) The best writing is not about the writer, the best writing is absolutely not about the writer, it’s about us, it’s about the reader (Ben Okri Quotes) We can redream this world and make the dream come real. Human beings are gods hidden from themselves (Ben Okri Quotes) There is a kind of expressed love which is easy to subvert. When a figure is loved for their deeds, their conquests, their heroism, their goodness, their love of the people, these are easy enough to destroy... But there is a kind of love which is felt for apparently no reason... A love, inspired, it seems, by the gods, which it is impossible to fight, distort, destroy, or weaken. In fact, the attempts to destroy such loves only strengthen them. And to do nothing allows them to continue to grow at their natural pace, inexoribly, till this love becomes a wide and silent adoration (Ben Okri Quotes) 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. Destiny plans a different route, or turns the dream around, as if it were a riddle, and fulfills the dream in ways we couldn’t have expected (Ben Okri Quotes) It is not important for me as a writer that you leave a piece of writing of mine with either an agreement or even a resonance with what I have said. What is important is that you leave with the resonance of what you have felt and what you thought in reaction to that (Ben Okri Quotes) If we could be pure dancers in spirit we would never be afraid to love, and we would love with strength and wisdom (Ben Okri Quotes)

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