Derek Walcott quote

The sigh of History rises over ruins, not over landscapes, and in the Antilles there are few ruins to sigh over, apart from the ruins of sugar estates and abandoned forts.
Derek Walcott

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The Poetry of Derek Walcott 1948-2013
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