Author: Ben Okri

Cites

• Christopher Okigbo (2)
  • IN: Stars of the New Curfew (1988) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: We carry in our worlds that flourish our worlds that have failed
    FROM: Lament of the Silent Sisters, (1963), Poem, Nigeria
  • IN: Incidents at the Shrine (1986) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: When you have finished And done up my stiches, Wake me near the altar, And this poem will be finished.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Nigeria
• Heraclitus (1)
  • IN: Wild (2012) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: One thunderbolt strikes root through everything.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Greece
• Rainer Maria Rilke (1)
  • IN: Dangerous Love (1996) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Shouldn't these ancient sufferings of ours finally start to bear fruit?
    FROM: The First Elegy from Duino Elegies, (1923), Poem, Bohemia-Austria
• NULL (1)
  • IN: Dangerous Love (1996) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: I was walking through a dark forest when it happened. The trees turned into mist. And when I looked back I saw the dead girl. She walked steadily towards me. She didn't have a nose or a mouth. Only a bright pair of eyes. She followed me everywhere I went. I saw a light at the end of the forest and I made for it. I didn't get there.
    FROM: Extract from a notebook, (None), NULL, NULL
• Albert Camus (1)
  • IN: The Age of Magic (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: A work of art that retraced the conquest of happiness would be a revolutionary one.
    FROM: Noces, (1937), Book, France
• Pensero (1)
  • IN: The Age of Magic (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The age of magic has begun. Unveil your eyes.
    FROM: Ii Camino, (1321), NULL, NULL
• Christopher Marlowe (1)
  • IN: Infinite Riches (1998) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Infinite riches in a little room.
    FROM: The Jew of Malta, (1633), Play, UK
• Virgil (1)
  • IN: Songs of Enchantment (1993) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: felix, qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas' Blessed are those who know the causes of things
    FROM: Georgics, Book II, 490, (-29), Poem, Italy