The English language is nobody’s special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.
—Derek Walcott
Topics: Language
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.
—Derek Walcott
Topics: Quarrels, Fighting, Fight
For every poet it is always morning in the world; history a forgotten, insomniac night. The fate of poetry is to fall in love with the world in spite of history.
—Derek Walcott
Any serious attempt to try to do something worthwhile is ritualistic.
—Derek Walcott
Wondering Whom to Read Next?
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- Chinua Achebe Nigerian Novelist, Poet
- Reginald Horace Blyth British Japanologist
- Hans Hofmann American Painter
- Tim Robbins American Actor, Director
- Harold Pinter British Playwright
- Robert Penn Warren American Novelist, Poet
- Stanley Kunitz American Poet
- Carol Dweck American Psychologist
- Henry Steele Commager American Historian
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