He had married (as most young men did) because he had met a perfectly charming girl at the moment when a series of rather aimless sentimental adventures were ending in premature disgust; and she had represented peace, stability, comradeship, and the steadying sense of an unescapable duty.

in meditation practice, the best way to get somewhere is to let go of trying to get anywhere at all.

I had buried my romance in a bed of asphodel.

The personal vocabulary, the individual melody whose metre is one&#39;s biography, joins in that sound, with any luck, and the body moves like a walking, a waking island.

This is Port of Spain to me, a city ideal in its commercial and human proportions, where a citizen is a walker and not a pedestrian, and this is how Athens may have been before it became a cultural echo.

Derek Walcott

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Written By Derek Walcott

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