Derek Walcott Quote

I thought, who cares how many million starve? Their rising souls will lighten the world's weight and level its gull-glittering waterline.

The Fortunate Traveller (for Susan Sontag) (1981), I

I thought, who cares how many million starve? Their rising souls will lighten the world's weight and level its gull-glittering waterline.

I thought, who cares how many million starve? Their rising souls will lighten the world's weight and level its gull-glittering waterline.

I thought, who cares how many million starve? Their rising souls will lighten the world's weight and level its gull-glittering waterline.

I thought, who cares how many million starve? Their rising souls will lighten the world's weight and level its gull-glittering waterline.