3 December 2020 Ben Okri 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.
3 December 2020 Ben Okri I am not fighting for success, just to get more beauty out of myself and share it with more people.
3 December 2020 Ben Okri Politics is the art of the possible creativity is the art of the impossible.
3 December 2020 Ben Okri 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.
3 December 2020 Ben Okri 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.
3 December 2020 Ben Okri The strange thing about Africa is how past, present and future come together in a kind of rough jazz, if you like.
3 December 2020 Ben Okri 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.
3 December 2020 Ben Okri 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.
