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The poem is never complete in the mind. It emerges, and then it's like an act of unveiling. The unveiling is the longest and most difficult part of it. - Ben Okri

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Name: Ben Okri
Born: 15 March 1959
Profession: Poet | Novelist |

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The poem is never complete in the mind. It emerges, and then it's like an act of unveiling. The unveiling is the longest and most difficult part of it.

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Ben Okri quotes

Author's Biography:
Name: Ben Okri
Born: 15 March 1959
Profession: Poet | Novelist |

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So let the world go, but hold fast to joy

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We don't just get our choice; we get the consequence that choice creates.

Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.

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The poem is never complete in the mind. It emerges, and then it's like an act of unveiling. The unveiling is the longest and most difficult part of it.

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Ben Okri quotes

Author's Biography: Name: Ben Okri Born: 15 March 1959 Profession: Poet | Novelist |

Related Authors Chinweizu Ibekwe | Chuma Mmeka | Tolu Ogunlesi | Lola Shoneyin | Alphonse de Lamartine | Emily Bronte | Don DeLillo | Emily Bronte |

So let the world go, but hold fast to joy

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My problem is people seem to laugh at me, but the one that laughs harder than anybody is me.

We don't just get our choice; we get the consequence that choice creates.

Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.

It is lack of reason that makes you think success is all about having money.

We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts.

There are some things you only learn through experience.

Law 7: Get others to do the work for you, but always take the credit

Never trust a dog to watch your food.

Behind every cloud is another cloud.

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Author's Biography:
Name: Ben Okri
Born: 15 March 1959
Profession: Poet | Novelist |

Related Authors
Chinweizu Ibekwe | Chuma Mmeka | Tolu Ogunlesi | Lola Shoneyin | Alphonse de Lamartine | Emily Bronte | Don DeLillo | Emily Bronte |