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Derek Walcott

Date of Birth:

23-Jan-1930

Nationality:

Saint Lucia

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The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.
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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.
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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.
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Any serious attempt to try to do something worthwhile is ritualistic.
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Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean; it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty, the sigh of History dissolves.
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There is a force of exultation, a celebration of luck, when a writer finds himself a witness to the early morning of a culture that is defining itself, branch by branch, leaf by leaf, in that self-defining dawn, which is why, especially at the edge of the sea, it is good to make a ritual of the sunrise.
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The country that I was coming from, the island I was in, hadn't been written about, really. So I thought that I virtually had it all to myself, including the language that was spoken there, which was a French Creole, and a landscape that is not recorded, really, and the people.
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I consider the sound of the sea to be part of my body.
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My delight in things is definitely Caribbean. It has to do with landscape and food. The fact that my language may have a metrical direction is because that's the shape of the language. I didn't make that shape.
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Where I come from, we sing poetry.
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The older I get, the more aware I am of the banality and indifference of a place like Trinidad to any development of the arts.
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A noun is not a name you give something. It is something you watch becoming itself, and you have to have the patience to find out what it is.
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