Derek Walcott Quotes
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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 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
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
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
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
