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Derek Walcott quotes: In Eden who sleeps happiest? The serpent.

In Eden who sleeps happiest? The serpent.

Derek Walcott quotes: How can I turn from Africa and live?

How can I turn from Africa and live?

Derek Walcott quotes: The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.

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 quotes: She's a rare vase, out of a cat's reach, on its shelf.

She's a rare vase, out of a cat's reach, on its shelf.

Derek Walcott quotes: Summer for prose and lemons, for nakedness and languor,

Summer for prose and lemons, for nakedness and languor,

Derek Walcott quotes: The word and the shadow of the word / makes a thing both itself and something else / till we are metaphors and not ourselves ...

The word and the shadow of the word / makes a thing both itself and something else / till we are metaphors and not ourselves ...

Derek Walcott quotes: I shall unlearn feeling,unlearn my gift. That is greaterand harder than what passes there for life.

I shall unlearn feeling,
unlearn my gift. That is greater
and harder than what passes there for life.

Derek Walcott quotes: What are men? Children who doubt.

What are men? Children who doubt.

Derek Walcott quotes: The classics can console. But not enough.

The classics can console. But not enough.

Derek Walcott quotes: I loved them as poets love the poetry that kills them, as drowned sailors the sea.

I loved them as poets love the poetry
that kills them, as drowned sailors the sea.

Derek Walcott quotes: We read, we travel, we become.

We read, we travel, we become.

Derek Walcott quotes: ... the truest writers are those who see language not as a linguistic process but as a living element ...

... the truest writers are those who see language not as a linguistic process but as a living element ...

Derek Walcott quotes: The voice does go up in a poem. It is an address, even if it is to oneself.

The voice does go up in a poem. It is an address, even if it is to oneself.

Derek Walcott quotes: I too saw the wooden horse blocking the stars.

I too saw the wooden horse blocking the stars.

Derek Walcott quotes: and the frayed earth, crisscrossed like old bagasse, spring to a cushiony quilt of emerald grass, and who does sew and sow and patch the land?

and the frayed earth, crisscrossed like old bagasse, spring to a cushiony quilt of emerald grass, and who does sew and sow and patch the land?

Derek Walcott quotes: A culture, we all know, is made by its cities.

A culture, we all know, is made by its cities.

Derek Walcott quotes: Any serious attempt to try to do something worthwhile is ritualistic.

Any serious attempt to try to do something worthwhile is ritualistic.

Derek Walcott quotes: I try to forget what happiness was, and when that don't work, I study the stars.

I try to forget what happiness was, and when that don't work, I study the stars.

Derek Walcott quotes: We make too much of that long groan which underlines the past.

We make too much of that long groan which underlines the past.

Derek Walcott quotes: If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.

If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.

Derek Walcott quotes: The future happens. No matter how much we scream.

The future happens. No matter how much we scream.

Derek Walcott quotes: Memory that yearns to join the centre, a limb remembering the body from which it has been severed, like those bamboo thighs of the god.

Memory that yearns to join the centre, a limb remembering the body from which it has been severed, like those bamboo thighs of the god.

Derek Walcott quotes: Time is the metre, memory the only plot.

Time is the metre, memory the only plot.

Derek Walcott quotes: Art is History's nostalgia, it prefers a thatched roof to a concrete factory, and the huge church above a bleached village.

Art is History's nostalgia, it prefers a thatched roof to a concrete factory, and the huge church above a bleached village.

Derek Walcott quotes: To change your language you must change your life.

To change your language you must change your life.

Derek Walcott quotes: Because that is what such a city is, in the New World, a writer's heaven.

Because that is what such a city is, in the New World, a writer's heaven.

Derek Walcott quotes: I have never separated the writing of poetry from prayer. I have grown up believing it is a vocation, a religious vocation.

I have never separated the writing of poetry from prayer. I have grown up believing it is a vocation, a religious vocation.

Derek Walcott quotes: I read; I travel; I become

I read; I travel; I become

Derek Walcott quotes: Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean; it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty, the sigh of History dissolves.

Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean; it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty, the sigh of History dissolves.

Derek Walcott quotes: Damn wind shift sudden as a woman mind.

Damn wind shift sudden as a woman mind.

Derek Walcott quotes: 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.

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.