Derek Walcott Quote

Memory that yearns to join the centre, a limb remembering the body from which it has been severed, like those bamboo thighs of the god.


What the Twilight Says: Essays (ed. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014) - ISBN: 9781466880504


Memory that yearns to join the centre, a limb remembering the body from which it has been severed, like those bamboo thighs of the god.

Memory that yearns to join the centre, a limb remembering the body from which it has been severed, like those bamboo thighs of the god.

Memory that yearns to join the centre, a limb remembering the body from which it has been severed, like those bamboo thighs of the god.

Memory that yearns to join the centre, a limb remembering the body from which it has been severed, like those bamboo thighs of the god.