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In Eden who sleeps happiest? The serpent. — Derek Walcott

How can I turn from Africa and live? — Derek Walcott

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

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

Summer for prose and lemons, for nakedness and languor, — Derek Walcott

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

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

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

I would enjoy having dinner with the poet/playwright Derek Walcott. — Walter Dean Myers

We read, we travel, we become. — Derek Walcott

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

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

I too saw the wooden horse blocking the stars. — Derek Walcott

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

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

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

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

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

What are men? Children who doubt. — Derek Walcott

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

The classics can console. But not enough. — Derek Walcott

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

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

Time is the metre, memory the only plot. — Derek Walcott

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

To change your language you must change your life. — Derek Walcott

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

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

I read; I travel; I become — Derek Walcott

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

Damn wind shift sudden as a woman mind. — Derek Walcott

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