“The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.”
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Politics is the art of the possible creativity is the art of the impossible.
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.
I was born left-handed, but I was made to use my other hand. When I was writing 'Famished Road, ' which was very long, I got repetitive stress syndrome. My right wrist collapsed, so I started using my left hand. The prose I wrote with my left hand came out denser, so later on I had to change it.
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.
