I'm 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. There's hardly a day that goes past on which I don't write poetry.
Ben Okri
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- Don't despair too much if you see beautiful things destroyed, if you see them perish. Because the best things are always growing in secret.
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