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.
There's always more to see. - Derek Walcott
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
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. - 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.
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
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 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 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…
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
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…
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
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.
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
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…
Summer for prose and lemons, for nakedness and languor. - Derek Walcott
Summer for prose and lemons, for nakedness and languor.
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