Inspirational Quotes by Derek Walcott (West Indian Poet)

Derek Alton Walcott (1930–2017) was a West Indian poet and dramatist. This winner of the 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature is celebrated for works that explored the cultural complexities of Caribbean life. His career spanned poetry, theatre, journalism, painting, and teaching.

Born in Castries, St Lucia, British West Indies, he was educated there and at Kingston, Jamaica, to both of which he later returned as a teacher. His first poems were Twenty-Five Poems (1948,) followed by Epitaph for the Young: XII Cantos (1949.) He founded the Trinidad Theatre Workshop in 1959 and wrote and staged numerous plays such as Ti-Jean and His Brothers (1958,) Dream on Monday Mountain (1970,) and The Joker of Seville (1978.)

Walcott’s early volumes of poetry include In a Green Night (1962,) Castaway (1965,) and The Gulf (1969;.) Examples of his later works are The Fortunate Traveller (1982) and Omeros (1990,) which takes Homer as a starting point for an epic poem about Caribbean life. Walcott’s Collected Poems was published in 1986. Later works include Tiepolo’s Hound (2000) and The Prodigal (2005.)

Walcott’s essays literary criticism was collected in What the Twilight Says (1998.)

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