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Walcott Derek QUOTES

  • Days I have held, days I have lost, days that outgrow, like daughters, my harbouring arms.

  • I read; I travel; I become.

  • Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole.

  • “What are men? Children who doubt.”



  • I consider the sound of the sea to be part of my body.

  • “The future happens. No matter how much we scream.”

  • 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.

  • “Summer for prose and lemons, for nakedness and languor, for the eternal idleness of the imagined return, for rare flutes and bare feet, and the August bedroom of tangled sheets.”


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