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llovelymoonn · 1 year

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derek walcott the antilles: fragments of epic memory

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#derek walcott #the antilles #the antilles: fragments of epic memory #quotes #words

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thoughtkick · 1 month

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You will love again the stranger who was your self.

Derek Walcott, Love After Love

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apoemaday · 9 months

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Earth

by Derek Walcott

Let the day grow on you upward through your feet, the vegetal knuckles,

to your knees of stone, until by evening you are a black tree; feel, with evening,

the swifts thicken your hair, the new moon rising out of your forehead, and the moonlit veins of silver

running from your armpits like rivulets under white leaves. Sleep, as ants

cross over your eyelids. You have never possessed anything as deeply as this.

This is all you have owned from the first outcry through forever;

you can never be dispossessed.

#poetry #derek walcott #earth

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perfectfeelings · 8 months

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You will love again the stranger who was your self.

Derek Walcott, Love After Love

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havingapoemwithyou · 10 months

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love after love by Derek Walcott

#Derek Walcott #poetry #poem

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geopsych · 1 year

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Love After Love

by Derek Walcott

#poem for the broken-hearted #derek walcott #poem #poetry #the stranger who is yourself #who has loved you all your life #give back your heart to yourself #love after love

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blurrymerzsblog · 3 months

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Walcott’s poem appears in @allieesiri ‘s anthology, “A Poem for Every Autumn Day’ (2020). This clip is sourced from her channel, ‘YouTube Poetry with Allie Esiri’, on YouTube. This poem was recited by English actress, Helena Bonham Carter.

Derek Walcott (1930-2017) is thought to be among the greatest of the Caribbean poets, and won a Nobel prize in Literature in 1992.

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#literature #literaturelover #rumi #helenbonhamcarter

#literaturequotes #classicliterature #poetry

#poetrycommunity #poetrylovers #poetrygram

#book #bookstagram #art #artgallery #nature

#inspiration #inspirational #explore #reading

#explorepage #exploremore #darkacademia #aesthetic

#derek walcott #poetry #literature #helenabonhamcarter #books

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riverbird · 11 months

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"I have never separated the writing of poetry from prayer." Derek Walcott, The Paris Review, The Art of Poetry No. 37

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sashayed · 9 months

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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 1986

#poetry #derek walcott #so there!!

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thehopefulquotes · 9 months

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You will love again the stranger who was your self.

Derek Walcott, Love After Love

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typewriter-worries · 2 years

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You will love again the stranger who was your self.

Love after Love, Derek Walcott

#derek walcott #poetry #literature #dark academia #classic academia #light academia #romantic academia

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lunchboxpoems · 1 year

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DEREK WALCOTT

#derek walcott #poem #poetry #poetry month

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resqectable · 10 months

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You will love again the stranger who was your self.

Derek Walcott, Love After Love

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apoemaday · 2 years

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Love After Love

by Derek Walcott

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.

#poetry #derek walcott #love after love

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perfectquote · 1 year

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You will love again the stranger who was your self.

Derek Walcott, Love After Love

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thoughtkick · 1 year

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You will love again the stranger who was your self.

Derek Walcott, Love After Love

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