“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

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Saint Lucian–Trinidadian poet and playwright 1930–2017

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