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Artists and writers have to deal with the element that makes the real real and the dream real while you are dreaming it. That's where stories and poems get their power.

~Ben Okri

Topics: Artists Deal Dream Dreaming Element Get Makes Poems Power Real Stories Where While Writers You

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'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' had a formative effect on me. I think it's one of those works that if you encounter it very early you're doubly enchanted by the beauty of the language and the strangeness of the vision. It stays with you.

~Ben Okri

Topics: Ancient Beauty Doubly Early Effect Enchanted Encounter Formative Had Language Me Stays Strangeness Think Those Very Vision Works You I Think

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At the heart of 'The Famished Road' is a philosophical conundrum - for me, an essential one: what is reality? Everybody's reality is subjective; it's conditioned by upbringing, ideas, temperament, religion, what's happened to you.

~Ben Okri

Topics: Conditioned Essential Everybody Happened Heart Ideas Me Philosophical Reality Religion Road Subjective Temperament Upbringing You

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One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity.

~Ben Okri

Topics: Adversity Bore Courage Father Gave Gifts Greatest Greatest Gifts He Me Which Witnessing

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I became a sceptic of one way of seeing the world. And I think it is what started me in my awareness that any worldview is superstitious.

~Ben Okri

Topics: Any Awareness Became Me One Way Seeing Started Superstitious Think Way World Worldview I Think

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I am one year older than Nigeria at 51. In a human life, 51 might be old. But it is very young for a nation. By that, I mean a Nigeria conscious of itself as a nation.

~Ben Okri

Topics: Am Conscious Human Human Life Itself Life Mean Might Nation Nigeria Old Older Than Very Year Young I Am

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Fire is one of my temperaments. It is behind all my work... Fire is a chemical presence.

~Ben Okri

Topics: All My Work Behind Chemical Fire Presence Work

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Some of my reactions are very Nigerian. I still believe that words are things.

~Ben Okri

Topics: Believe Nigerian Reactions Some Still Things Very Words

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Biography

Nationality: Nigerian

Type: Poet

Born: March 15th, 1959

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