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Inspirational Quote by Derek Walcott

“The word and the shadow of the word / makes a thing both itself and something else / till we are metaphors and not ourselves . . .” quote by Derek Walcott — Download Open image

“The word and the shadow of the word / makes a thing both itself and something else / till we are metaphors and not ourselves . . .”

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Memory that yearns to join the centre, a limb remembering the body from which it has been severed, like those bamboo thighs of the…

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Peel your own image from the mirror. Sit. Feast on your life.

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The time will come when, with elation you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror and each will smile at the other's welcome, and say, sit here. Eat. You will love again the stranger who was your self. Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart to itself, to the stranger who has loved you…

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“I am the man my father loved and was.”

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