Quote by Wole Soyinka
My horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems

My horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems, seeing a painting, listening to some music, some opera, which has nothing at all to do with a volatile human condition or struggle or whatever. It enriches me as a human being. – Wole Soyinka

Other quotes by Wole Soyinka

Theres a kind of dynamic quality about theater and that dynamic quality expresses itself in relation to, first of all, the environment in which its being staged then the audience, the nature of the audience, the quality of the audience. – Wole Soyinka

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Nature
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But when youre deprived of it for a lengthy period then you value human companionship. But you have to survive and so you devise all kinds of mental exercises and its amazing. – Wole Soyinka

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amazing
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Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact, can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom. – Wole Soyinka

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Freedom
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Music
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I still absolutely love The Sound of Music and anything with Julie Andrews in it. – Kristin Scott Thomas

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Music

Theres a constantly applicable nature to soul music, whereas sometimes pop music can be a periodical. – John Mayer

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Music

Pop stardom is not very compelling. Im much more interested in a relationship between performer and audience that is of equals. I came up through folk music, and theres no pomp and circumstance to the performance. Theres no, like, Ill be the rock star, you be the adulating fan. – Ani DiFranco

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Music

People always try to find my agenda, but I dont really have one. Its safe to say that I make pop, but I think that Im doing important music, too. Ive just always done what I wanted to do. – Ellie Goulding

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Music

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The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours. – Bertrand Russell

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Humankind

Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all. – Ovid

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Happiness

There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust. – Saint Francis de Sales

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Anger

The Life and Soul, the man who will never go home while there is one man, woman or glass of anything not yet drunk. – Katherine Whitehorn

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Parties