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Im conscious of a series of circles working its way through my lif

Im 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. Theres hardly a day that goes past on which I dont write poetry. – Ben Okri

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I am not fighting for success, just to get more beauty out of myself and share it with more people. – Ben Okri

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The best writing is not about the writer, the best writing is absolutely not about the writer, its about us, its about the reader. – Ben Okri

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The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering. – Ben Okri

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You dont go after poetry, you take what comes. Maybe the gods do it through me but I certainly do a hell of a lot of the work. – Phyllis Gotlieb

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The music just tends to be a vehicle for that poetry. – Mark Knopfler

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I used to write sonnets and various things, and moved from there into writing prose, which, incidentally, is a lot more interesting than poetry, including the rhythms of prose. – Shelby Foote

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