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Derek Walcott

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Derek Walcott Quotes

Total quotes: 2

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Derek Walcott

Birthname

Birthday: January 23, 1930

Death: March 17, 2017

Educated At: University Of The West Indies

Nationality: Saint Lucian, United Kingdom, Saint Lucia

Occupations: Poet, Playwright, Professor, Writer

Total quotes: 2

“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

all your life, whom you ignored
for another, who knows you by heart.
Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,

the photographs, the desperate notes,
peel your own image from the mirror.
Sit. Feast on your life.”

— Derek Walcott, Love After Love: Derek Walcott’s Poetic Ode to Being at Home in Ourselves

Tagged: Self-Love, Spilled Ink

“I read; I travel; I become.”

— Derek Walcott, The Poetry of Derek Walcott 1948-2013

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