“Like any art, what is the most imprisoning thing is also the most delivering thing. If an actor knows he only has 12 syllables in a line, the challenge is, 'How can I interpret the meaning and contain it without going one syllable over?'”

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Books by Derek Walcott

Omeros

1990

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White egrets

2010

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Selected poems

2007

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