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From Quotes by Derek Walcott
- Peel your own image from the mirror. Sit. Feast on your life.
- I have never separated the writing of poetry from prayer. I have grown up believing it is a vocation, a religious vocation.
- The sigh of History rises over ruins, not over landscapes, and in the Antilles there are few ruins to sigh over, apart from the ruins…
- Memory that yearns to join the centre, a limb remembering the body from which it has been severed, like those bamboo thighs of the god.
- How can I turn from Africa and live?
- Love After Love The time will come when, with elation you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror and each…
- Love After Love all your life, whom you have ignored for another, who knows you by heart. Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,…
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