More From 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."
- "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."
- "Politics is the art of the possible; creativity is the art of the impossible."
More In Poetry
- "We simply have not kept in touch with poetry."― Paul Muldoon
- "France is not poetic; she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom she will always prefer are the most prosaic."― Charles Baudelaire
- "It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish."― Charles Baudelaire