德里克 沃尔科特 不同寻常的情诗一首
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德里克 沃尔科特 出生在加勒比海岛国圣露西亚，以英文写作诗歌，戏剧等，并从事视觉艺术，曾获诺贝尔文学奖。
他对波士顿非常熟悉和热爱，曾在哈佛大学英文系，波士顿大学创作系等地做过教授。可是在这两个学校都曾有女生告他性骚扰，并被调查。是太多情，文化差异，还是人品欠佳？且待后人评说。不过，诗确实写得很好，言浅意深，耐人思索、寻味。
Love After Love
Derek Walcott
The time will come
when, with elation
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror
and each will smile at the other's welcome,
and say, sit here. Eat.
You will love again the stranger who was your self.
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart
to itself, to the stranger who has loved you
all your life, whom you ignored
for another, who knows you by heart.
Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,
the photographs, the desperate notes,
peel your own image from the mirror.
Sit. Feast on your life.
