Wole Soyinka

Romance is the sweetening of the soul With fragrance offered by the stricken heart. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

#romance #soul #soul

The hand that dips into the bottom of the pot will eat the biggest snail. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

#bottom #dips #eat #hand #into

But when you're deprived of it for a lengthy period then you value human companionship. But you have to survive and so you devise all kinds of mental exercises and it's amazing. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

#companionship #deprived #devise #exercises #human

And I believe that the best learning process of any kind of craft is just to look at the work of others. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

#believe #best #craft #i #i believe

Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

#forms #suppress #terror #those #truth

But the ultimate lesson is just sit down and write. That's all. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

#just #lesson #sit #ultimate #write

But theater, because of its nature, both text, images, multimedia effects, has a wider base of communication with an audience. That's why I call it the most social of the various art forms. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

#art forms #audience #base #because #both

I consider the process of gestation just as important as when you're actually sitting down putting words to the paper. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

#consider #down #i #important #just

I don't really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

#came #consider #i #just #myself

Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

#domination #form #lie #power #selective