To listen is to assume the position of losing yourself in th... - Leopold Sédar Senghor

This quote is attributed to Leopold Sédar Senghor.

"To listen is to assume the position of losing yourself in the spaces of another's story."

Leopold Sédar Senghor Kindness

President, Poet Senegalese 1906–2001

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