Nigerian - Poet | March 15, 1959 -
I learned that life will go through changes - up and down and up again. It's what life does.
Ben Okri
LifeDownGoWillChangesUp
The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell.
PerfectionStoryImperfectionHuman
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.
InspirationalLoveSufferingCreate
I became a sceptic of one way of seeing the world. And I think it is what started me in my awareness that any worldview is superstitious.
MeWorldThinkSeeingWayAwareness
I believe in leavening. You can't have words sticking out too much, like promontories. They disturb the density. You have to flatten them, or raise the surrounding terrain.
WordsBelieveYouToo MuchI Believe
One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity. We had a bit of a rollercoaster life with some really challenging financial periods. He was always unshaken, completely tranquil, the same ebullient, laughing, jovial man.
LifeFatherAdversityCourageMan
The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.
DoingAttentionAwayCommonMagician
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.
InspirationalBeautifulGreatTime
When you can imagine you begin to create and when you begin to create you realize that you can create a world that you prefer to live in, rather than a world that you're suffering in.
LiveImaginationSufferingWorldYou
Fire is one of my temperaments. It is behind all my work... Fire is a chemical presence.
WorkFirePresenceBehindChemical
Politics is the art of the possible; creativity is the art of the impossible.
ArtCreativityPoliticsImpossible
We never think that our mothers will die. It was like suddenly an abyss opened at my feet - I was standing on nothing. It was the strangest thing. Her passing away ripped the solidity out of the world.
WorldFeetThinkDieNothingNever
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