Sir Derek Walcott passed away Friday March 17. RIP Sir Derek.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/...k-walcott-caribbean-poet-dies-at-87/99304050/
Derek Alton Walcott, poet, playwright, and painter died peacefully today, Friday 17th March, 2017, at his home in Cap Estate, Saint Lucia," read a statement the family released later in the morning.
The prolific and versatile poet received the Nobel Prize in literature in 1992 after being shortlisted for the honor for many years. In selecting Walcott, the academy cited the great luminosity of his writings including the 1990
Omeros, a 64-chapter Caribbean epic it praised as "majestic."
Favorite quotes from sir Derek;
The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.
Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole.