“Poetry, which is perfection's sweat but ..... Derek Walcott ----- AKSHR

“Poetry, which is perfection's sweat but which must seem as fresh as the raindrops on a statue's brow, combines the natural and the marmoreal; it conjugates both tenses simultaneously: the past and the present, if the past is the sculpture and the present the beads of dew or rain on the forehead of the past.”

Nobel Laureate: Derek Walcott | Saint Lucia, Literature 1992