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“ ”Let them run ahead. Then I’ll have good reason for shooting them down. Sharpeville? Attempting to escape. Attempting to escape from the prison of their lives. That’s the most dangerous crime. It brings about revolution. So, off we go, lads!
About Derek Walcott
Derek Alton Walcott (born January 23, 1930 – March 17 2017) was a West Indian poet, playwright, writer and visual artist who wrote mainly in English. Born in Castries, St. Lucia, he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1992.
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সাগরই হচ্ছে সেই মহাকাব্য, যার সংস্পর্শে এলে আগের লেখা কবিতার প্রতিটি পংক্তি মুছে যায়, আবার নতুন করে সাগরের ফেনায় ফেনায় পংক্তিগুলো রচনা করার ইচ্ছা জাগে
Here is where a real fresco should be painted, one without importance, but one with real faith, mapless, Historyless.
Caribbean culture is not evolving but already shaped. Its proportions are not to be measured by the traveller or the exile, but by its own citizenry and architecture. To be told you are not yet a city or a culture requires this response. I am not your city or your culture.