Leopold Sedar Senghor Quotes

I have always taken care to put an idea or emotion behind my words. I have made it a habit to be suspicious of the mere music of words.

Art is animated by invisible forces that rule the universe.

The [priest] was really my teacher, because I reacted against the things he told me.

What if this were Hell, this absence of sleep, this poet's desert, this pain of living, this dying of not dying, this anguish of shadows, this passion over death and light.

Let us listen to the voices of our Forebears ... In the smoky cabin, souls that wish us well are murmuring.