“So long as a canvas is empty its potential is infinite… The empty canvas can become a gateway into the landscape of… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
We plan our lives according to a dream that came to us in our childhood, and we find that life alters our… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
Destiny plans a different route and fulfills the dream in ways we couldn't have expected. — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
We can redream this world and make the dream come real. Human beings are gods hidden from themselves. — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
We can still astonish the gods in humanity And be the stuff of future legends, If we but dare to be real,… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
“He felt there had to be ‘something’. He felt human beings must create, each in their own way, and that it was… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
“Will you be at the harvest, Among the gatherers of new fruits? Then you must begin today to remake Your mental and… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
Artists and writers have to deal with the element that makes the real real and the dream real while you are dreaming… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' had a formative effect on me. I think it's one of those works that if you… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
If we are true, if we can love, if we have vision, if we can have courage, we can, we should, we… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
Only those who truly love and who are truly strong can sustain their lives as a dream. You dwell in your own… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
We never think that our mothers will die. It was like suddenly an abyss opened at my feet - I was standing on nothing.… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
“In a fractured age, when cynicism is god, here is a possible heresy: we live by stories, we also live in them. One way… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Maybe there are only three kinds of stories: those we live, those we tell, and those that help our souls fly upwards to a… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
The earliest storytellers were magi, seers, bards, griots, shamans. They were, it would seem, old as time, and as terrifying to gaze upon as… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
The strange thing about Africa is how past, present and future come together in a kind of rough jazz, if you like. — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
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… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
Fire is one of my temperaments. It is behind all my work... Fire is a chemical presence. — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
I lived rough, by my wits, was homeless, lived on the streets, lived on friends' floors, was happy, was miserable. — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Without stories we would go mad. Life would lose its moorings or lose its orientations. even in silence we are living our stories — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
