Aime Cesaire Quotes

A man screaming is not a dancing bear. Life is not a spectacle.

ma chère penchons sur les filons géologiques (my dear let us lean on geographical veins)

I would rediscover the secret of great communications and great combustions. I would say storm. I would say river. I would say tornado. I would say leaf. I would say tree. I would be drenched by all rains, moistened by all dews. I would roll like frenetic blood on the slow current of the eye of words turned into mad horses into fresh children into clots into curfew into vestiges of temples into precious stones remote enough to discourage miners. Whoever would not understand me would not understand any better the roaring of a tiger.

like the scorpion's question mark drawn in the pollen on the canvas of the sky and of our brains at midnight

I have made a pact with the night, I have felt it softly healing me,

Je viendrais à ce pays mien et je lui dirais : "Embrassez-moi sans crainte... Et si je ne sais que parler, c'est pour vous que je parlerai".

I have made a pact with the night, I have felt it softly healing me.