Quote by Derek Walcott

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.

You will love again the stranger who was your self. Give win

Summary

This quote highlights the idea that one should reconnect with and love their true self, the person they have neglected in pursuit of others. It suggests the importance of self-care and self-acceptance, encouraging us to give ourselves the love, nourishment (symbolized by wine and bread), and attention we deserve. By doing so, we rediscover the deep connection with ourselves, the stranger within us who has always loved and understood us.

Topics

By Derek Walcott

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

Don't be about just any life. Be about the life you want to

Don't be about just any life. Be about the life you want to be about.

A man well-known to be a liar had just told a most improbabl

A man well-known to be a liar had just told a most improbable story. Sir, while I believe you, someone said, you must admit that it's very wrong of truth not to condescend to be more plausible.

Nicolas Chamfort

Truth Man Wrongs

Sometimes you have to watch somebody love something before y

Sometimes you have to watch somebody love something before you can love it yourself. It is as if they are showing you the way.

There are three great questions which in life we have over a

There are three great questions which in life we have over and over again to answer: Is it right or wrong? Is it true or false? Is it beautiful or ugly? Our education ought ot help us to answer these questions.

Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art.

Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art.

Philip James Bailey

I have followed holiness, I have taught truth, and I have be

I have followed holiness, I have taught truth, and I have been most in the main things not that I thought the things concerning our times little, but that I thought none could do anything to purpose in God's great and public matters, till they were right in their conditions.

At 20 years of age the will reigns; at 30 the wit; at 40 the

At 20 years of age the will reigns; at 30 the wit; at 40 the judgement.

Benjamin Franklin

Age 40th Birthday

For decades, parents were told by so-called parenting 'exper

For decades, parents were told by so-called parenting 'experts' that offspring would be best raised on the belief each is special and entitled to all life has to offer.

People who don't travel cannot have a global view, all they

People who don't travel cannot have a global view, all they see is what's in front of them. Those people cannot accept new things because all they know is where they live.

As I speak to you today, government censors somewhere are wo

As I speak to you today, government censors somewhere are working furiously to erase my words from the records of history. But history itself has already condemned these tactics.

Hillary Clinton

The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys u

The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been so cynical, for the camera records in order to forget.

Many a man who pays rent all his life owns his own home and

Many a man who pays rent all his life owns his own home and many a family has successfully saved for a home only to find itself at last with nothing but a house.