Ben Okri Quotes

Politics is the art of the possible; creativity is the art of the impossible.

- Ben Okri

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I lived rough, by my wits, was homeless, lived on the streets, lived on friends' floors, was happy, was miserable. - Ben Okri

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. - Ben Okri

We plan our lives according to a dream that came to us in our childhood, and we find that life alters our plans. And yet, at the end, from a rare height, we also see that our dream was our fate. It's just that providence had other ideas as to how we would get there. Destiny plans a different route, or turns the dream around, as if it were a riddle, and fulfills the dream in ways we couldn't have expected. - Ben Okri