Ben Okri Quotes About Silence

Quotes about: Silence

• It is easy to forget how mysterious and mighty stories are. They do their work in silence, invisibly. They work with all the internal materials of your mind and self. They become part of you while changing you. Beware the stories you read or tell; subtly, at night, beneath the waters of consciousness, they are altering your world.

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  Night, Self, Water

• Without stories we would go mad. Life would lose its moorings or lose its orientations. even in silence we are living our stories

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  Mad, Silence, Stories

• Yes, the highest things are beyond words. That is probably why all art aspires to the condition of wordlessness. When literature works on you, it does so in silence, in your dreams, in your wordless moments. Good words enter you and become moods, become the quiet fabric of your being. Like music, like painting, literature too wants to transcend its primary condition and become something higher. Art wants to move into silence, into the emotional and spiritual conditions of the world. Statues become melodies, melodies become yearnings, yearnings become actions.

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  Dream, Spiritual, Art

• Painters ought to be mute. Speech is the enemy of expression.

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  Expression, Silence, Enemy

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