Ancient Quote by Ben Okri

Medieval and ancient sensibility now dominates our time as acoustic and multisensory awareness displaces the merely visual.

— Marshall McLuhan

“The voice of the light remains ever so faint; images quiet as ancient constellations float across the domw of my dawning mind. They are…

— Haruki Murakami

“If we don’t readjust our perception in time, the screeching hinges in our mind may break for want of oil and our viewing angle…

— Erik Pevernagie

“Words. Words. I play with words, hoping that some combination, even a chance combination, will say what I want. Perhaps better with music? But…

— Doris Lessing

It began as research. I wrote of silences, of nights, I scribbled the indescribable. I tied down the vertigo.

— Arthur Rimbaud

It ["The Ancient Mariner"] is marvellous in its mastery over that delightfully fortuitous inconsequence that is the adamantine logic of dreamland.

— James Russell Lowell

The despondency that follows makes me feel somewhat like a shipwrecked man who spies a sail, sees himself saved, and suddenly remembers that the…

— Jean Genet

“It was beyond imagining that bad font influences judgments of truth and improves cognitive performance, or that an emotional response to the cognitive ease…

— Daniel Kahneman

I think very visually, and I just never thought I had a novel in me.

— Sadie Jones

“The voice of the sea is seductive, never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander for a spell in abysses of solitude;…

— Kate Chopin

Have you ever been at sea in a dense fog, when it seemed as if a tangible white darkness shut you in and the…

— Helen Keller

“And the voice spoke even more deliberately: '...but remember what is under the ocean of clouds: eternity.' And suddenly that tranquil world, the world…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry