Ben Okri World Quotations

When you can imagine you begin to create and when you begin to create you realize that you can create a world that you prefer to live in, rather than a world that you're suffering in.

The greatest religions convert the world through stories.

The acknowledged legislators of the world take the world as given. They dislike mysteries, for mysteries cannot be coded, or legislated, and wonder cannot be made into law. And so these legislators police the accepted frontiers of things.

We can redream this world and make the dream come real. Human beings are gods hidden from themselves.

In the beginning there was a river. The river became a road and the road branched out to the whole world. And because the road was once a river it was always hungry.