You are your best thing.Toni Morrison
“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.”
Saint Lucian poet and playwright · 1930 – 2017
Saint Lucian poet and playwright who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1992. His epic poem Omeros reimagined Homer's world in the Caribbean, and his work gave the islands' landscapes, history and Creole voices a central place in world poetry.
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