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 you… - Derek Walcott

Love After Love
all your life, whom you have 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.

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.

The violence of beast on beast is read As natural law, but upright man Seeks his divinity by inflicting pain.

She's a rare vase, out of a cat's reach, on its shelf.

The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself. Derek Walcott