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The truth is that the poems are ecstatic.
Derek Walcott
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Derek Walcott
Age: 87 †
Born: 1930
Born: January 23
Died: 2017
Died: March 17
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Derek Alton Walcott
Sir Derek Alton Walcott
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The classics can console. But not enough.
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The future happens. No matter how much we scream.
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Good science and good art are always about a condition of awe. I don't think there is any other function for the poet or the scientist in the human tribe but the astonishment of the soul.
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Summer for prose and lemons, for nakedness and languor.
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