Ben Okri Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)
Ben Okri quotes and sayings page 3 (poet). Here's quote # 21 through 30 out of the 48 we have.
“We have fallen into this very mean description of humanity. Naturalism in fiction is too reductive in its definition of human beings.”
“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.”
“I went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and Shakespeare.”
“I was born left-handed, but I was made to use my other hand. When I was writing 'Famished Road,' which was very long, I got repetitive stress syndrome. My right wrist collapsed, so I started using my left hand. The prose I wrote with my left hand came out denser, so later on I had to change it.”
“At the heart of 'The Famished Road' is a philosophical conundrum - for me, an essential one: what is reality? Everybody's reality is subjective; it's conditioned by upbringing, ideas, temperament, religion, what's happened to you.”
“When I write a poem, I go into a state of self-forgetfulness, and something higher takes over; I like to call it my best self.”
“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.”
“Reading is an act of civilization; it's one of the greatest acts of civilization because it takes the free raw material of the mind and builds castles of possibilities.”
“The worst time was 1983. Love and life and everything went wrong. I reached absolute rock bottom. I saw the Minotaur at the bottom of the abyss. I learnt of the harshness of the world and its impartiality to human failure.”
“I am not fighting for success, just to get more beauty out of myself and share it with more people.”
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