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

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Im not one of those writers I learned about who get up in the morning, put a piece of paper in their typewriter machine and start writing. That Ive never understood. – Wole Soyinka

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And I believe that the best learning process of any kind of craft is just to look at the work of others. – Wole Soyinka

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Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth. – Wole Soyinka

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I like to comprehend more or less everything around me – apart from the creation of my music. Its an obsessive character trait thats getting worse. I dont switch the light on and off 15 times before I leave the room yet, but somethings going wrong. – Robert Plant

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Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together. – Anaïs Nin

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There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres. – Pythagoras

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I plan to stay in music. I plan to keep making records. – Joan Jett

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Intolerance betrays want of faith in ones cause. – Mahatma Gandhi

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