Derek Walcott passed away nine years ago today. Here's one of my favourites, from White Egrets (2010).
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Literarischer #17März
„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.
#DerekWalcott #SeaGrapes Tod 2017
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#DerekWalcott #TheFist #PoetryCommunity #PoemOfTheDay #PoemsRethabileLikes
Walcott was #poet and #playwright. He fused #Caribbean history & myth with classical forms. His #Omeros confirmed his stature, and he got the 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature.
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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 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.
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Love After Love by Derek Walcott
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Cover of Omeros by Derek Walcott for the Tuesday Book Club by P-Wave Press
Our first #TuesdayBookClub of 2026 is Omeros by Derek Walcott. An epic poem that drew me in slowly, then completely—revealing how history lives on in people, places, and the sea itself. A remarkable way to begin the year. 📚🌊 #Omeros #DerekWalcott #booksky
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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.
...
Sit. Feast on your life.
- Derek Walcott, Love after Love
born on this day, 1930
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#DerekWalcott
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“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.”
Poems: www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/derek-...
✒️ Sir #DerekWalcott, Saint Lucian poet (Nobel Prize in #Literature 1992), was #BOTD 23 Jan 1930 #Poetry
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The drizzle tightens like the strings of a harp /A man with clouded eyes picks up the rain /and plucks the first line of the Odyssey
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Quote of the Day:
“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.”
- Derek Walcott
#QuoteOfTheDay #DerekWalcott #Love #Healing
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The fate of #poetry is to fall in love with the world in spite of history.
- #DerekWalcott
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di Derek Walcott (Castries, 1930 – Cap Estate, 2017)
Sono perseguitato da siepi d’oleandro rosa
lungo le strade siciliane, le loro consonanti di ghiaia
sotto le ruote, da pile di pietre ... cctm.website/derek-walcot...
#derekwalcott #poesia #cctmwebsite #anoipiaceleggere #leggere
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The fate of #poetry is to fall in love with the world, in spite of history.
- #DerekWalcott
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𝗧𝗕𝗥 𝗣𝗶𝗹𝗲: 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗲 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝘀 -
A few of the titles I'll be looking at this month! (& more surprises this month, too!)
#books #literature #bookreviews #tbrpile #tbrlist #derekwalcott #vietthanhnguyen #akwaekeemezi #marlonjames #simonjimenez #thomasmann #matthewsmith #booksky
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“This is Love After Love by Derek Walcott—a quiet call to come home to yourself.”
A short video reading of this poem about self-forgetting… and return.
Sit. Feast on your life.
#Poetry #DerekWalcott #LoveAfterLove #SpiritualWork #SelfLove #Presence #TheWork #EveryDayAHolyDay
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DEREK WALCOTT. A collection of first editions, limited editions, uncorrected proof copies, and corrected manuscripts by the Nobel Prize-winning Caribbean poet Derek Walcott, with items inscribed to his editor.
#bookcollecting #rarebooks #antiquarianbooks #firstedition #derekwalcott
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"I have no nation, now, but the imagination.”
#DerekWalcott
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“You didn't make yourself a poet — you entered a situation in which there was #poetry.”
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In the spirit of mixing up the Bluesky feed, for the next twenty days I'm going to post one poem a day that has stayed with me. 17/20 poets.org/poem/sea-his... #derekwalcott #theseaishistory #poetry #20poems
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“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.”
Poems: www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/derek-...
✒️ Sir #DerekWalcott, Caribbean poet (Nobel Prize in #Literature 1992), was #BOTD 23 Jan 1930. #Poetry
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Share 20 poems that have stayed with you. One poem per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
Day 12
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#PoetryIsNotALuxury
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#AswanEgypt #NileSunset
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Derek Walcott
Love after Love
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the photographs, the desperate notes,
peel your own image from the mirror.
Sit. Feast on your life.
- #DerekWalcott, 'Love After Love'
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LOVE AFTER LOVE
By #DerekWalcott
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,
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My pic of #TheFirstSupper by #TavaresStrachan This is part of the #EntangledPasts art exhibition at the Royal Academy of Art in #London, taken earlier in 2024. #NikonD750 #galaxyblack @royalacademy.bsky.social #MarySeacole #HarrietTubman #MarcusGarvey #MarshaPJohnson #DerekWalcott #KingTubby
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A City's Death by Fire by Derek Walcott ▫ Hope this isn't too hot for all of you. Enjoy. 😊🙏 (link below) #ACitysDeathNyFire #DerekWalcott #FlamePoetry #Poetry #PoetryCommunity #PoetryReader #PoetryReading
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Literarischer #17März
„What are men? Children who doubt.”
#DerekWalcott #TheOdyssey Tod 2017
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The latest Il giornale dei libri! paper.li/tigella/libri Thanks to @LanzoEditore @GrandCentralPub @namenick #derekwalcott #puglia
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"After that hot gospeller has levelled all but the churched sky/I wrote the tale by tallow of a city's death by fire" -- #DerekWalcott
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