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Derek Walcott
Author profile
born
in Castries, Saint Lucia
January 23, 1930
gender
male
genre
influences
Daniel Defoe
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Omeros
— published 1990 — 7 editions |
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Collected Poems, 1948-1984
— published 1985 — 3 editions |
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White Egrets
— published 2010 — 4 editions |
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Dream on Monkey Mountain and Other Plays
— published 1970 — 3 editions |
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Selected Poems
by Derek Walcott, Edward Baugh — published 1964 — 6 editions |
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The Prodigal: A Poem
— published 2004 — 4 editions |
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The Bounty: Poems
— published 1997 — 2 editions |
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Tiepolo's Hound
— 5 editions |
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Midsummer
— 3 editions |
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The Arkansas Testament
— published 1987 — 3 editions |
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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.”
― Derek Walcott, Sea Grapes
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.”
― Derek Walcott, Sea Grapes
“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 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
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, Collected Poems, 1948-1984
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
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, Collected Poems, 1948-1984
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