I come from a place that likes grandeur; it likes large gestures; it is not inhibited by flourish; it is a rhetorical society; it is a society of phy….

Love After Love The time will come when, with elation you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror and each will smile at th….

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..

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

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

Good science and good art are always about a condition of awe. I don't think there is any other function for the poet or the scientist in the human t….

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 estate….

Summer for prose and lemons, for nakedness and languor..

The time will come when, with elation, you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror, and each will smile at the other’s welc….

There's always more to see..

I read; I travel; I become.

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….

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

To change your language you must change your life..

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

The future happens. No matter how much we scream..

Time is the metre, memory the only plot..

I look in the mirror. There's me. What's in the mirror is not real. So am I unreal?.

Peel your own image from the mirror. Sit. Feast on your life..

The mirror is believed the way a poem is believed. It's believed because it's there..

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