There's always more to see.

- 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

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

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…

- Derek Walcott

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…

- 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 estate…

- 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

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…

- Derek Walcott

Summer for prose and lemons, for nakedness and languor.

- Derek Walcott