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Omeros (1990)
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Art is History's nostalgia, it prefers a thatched roof to a concrete factory, and the huge church above a bleached village.
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The worst crime is to leave a man's hands empty.
Men are born makers, with that primal simplicity
In every maker since Adam.
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And O was the conch-shell's invocation, mer was
both mother and sea in our Antillean patois, os, a grey bone, and the white surf as it crashes.
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Change lay in our silence. We had come to that bend
where the trees are warped by wind, and the cliffs, raw,
shelve surely to foam "Is right here everything end."
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
Cole Porter
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Born:
January 23, 1930
Died:
March 17, 2017
(aged 87)
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