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Derek Walcott Inspirational Quotes (31)
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The future happens. No matter how much we scream.
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
The classics can console. But not enough.
Derek Walcott
The sigh of History rises over ruins, not over landscapes, and in the Antilles there are few ruins to sigh over, apart from the ruins of sugar estates and abandoned forts.
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
The first thing we have to do is get rid of the pentameter. To ditch the pentameter.
Derek Walcott
There's always more to see.
Derek Walcott
In Eden who sleeps happiest? The serpent.
Derek Walcott
To change your language you must change your life.
Derek Walcott
The thing that is believed is a reality.
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
The truth is that the poems are ecstatic.
Derek Walcott
The poem is itself a mirror.
Derek Walcott
The mirror is believed the way a poem is believed. It's believed because it's there.
Derek Walcott
A culture, we all know, is made by its cities.
Derek Walcott
When you get a class reciting some great poems, it'll tear your heart out.
Derek Walcott
What are men? Children who doubt.
Derek Walcott
She's a rare vase, out of a cat's reach, on its shelf.
Derek Walcott
The personal vocabulary, the individual melody whose metre is one's biography, joins in that sound, with any luck, and the body moves like a walking, a waking island.
Derek Walcott
I look in the mirror. There's me. What's in the mirror is not real. So am I unreal?
Derek Walcott
You can't write drunk.
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
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
When poems are no good they don't make any sense.
Derek Walcott
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