Yes, the highest things are beyond words. That is probably why all art aspires to the condition of wordlessness. When literature works on you, it does so in silence, in your dreams, in your wordless moments. Good words enter you and become moods, become the quiet fabric of your being. Like music, like painting, literature too wants to transcend its primary condition and become something higher. Art wants to move into silence, into the emotional and spiritual conditions of the world. Statues become melodies, melodies become yearnings, yearnings become actions.
We have not yet arrived, but every point at which we stop requires a re-definition of our destination. - Ben Okri
We have not yet arrived, but every point at which we stop requires a re-definition of our destination.
- Ben Okri
A people are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves. Sick storytellers can make nations sick. Without stories we would go mad. … - Ben Okri
A people are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves. Sick storytellers can make nations sick. Without stories we would go mad. …
When you can imagine you begin to create and when you begin to create you realize that you can create a world that you prefer to live in, rather than… - Ben Okri
When you can imagine you begin to create and when you begin to create you realize that you can create a world that you prefer to live in, rather than…
Bad things will happen and good things too. Your life will be full of surprises. Miracles happen only where there has been suffering. So taste your g… - Ben Okri
Bad things will happen and good things too. Your life will be full of surprises. Miracles happen only where there has been suffering. So taste your g…
Only those who truly love and who are truly strong can sustain their lives as a dream. You dwell in your own enchantment. Life throws stones at you, … - Ben Okri
Only those who truly love and who are truly strong can sustain their lives as a dream. You dwell in your own enchantment. Life throws stones at you, …
Beware of the stories you read or tell; subtly, at night, beneath the waters of consciousness, they are altering your world. - Ben Okri
Beware of the stories you read or tell; subtly, at night, beneath the waters of consciousness, they are altering your world.
Stories are the secret reservoir of values: change the stories individuals and nations live by and tell themselves, and you change the individuals an… - Ben Okri
Stories are the secret reservoir of values: change the stories individuals and nations live by and tell themselves, and you change the individuals an…
To poison a nation, poison its stories. A demoralised nation tells demoralised stories to itself. Beware of the storytellers who are not fully consci… - Ben Okri
To poison a nation, poison its stories. A demoralised nation tells demoralised stories to itself. Beware of the storytellers who are not fully consci…
Maybe there are only three kinds of stories: those we live, those we tell, and those that help our souls fly upwards to a greater life. - Ben Okri
Maybe there are only three kinds of stories: those we live, those we tell, and those that help our souls fly upwards to a greater life.
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