Modesty is not possible in performance in the Caribbean - and that's wonderful. — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
If you talk about language in the Caribbean, you must relate it to history. — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean; it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty, the sigh of History dissolves. — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
I am not defined as a black writer in the Caribbean, but as soon as I go to America or the U.K.,… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
The Caribbean is not an idyll, not to its natives. They draw their working strength from it organically, like trees, like the… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
I'm read in the Caribbean with justice, with fairness. What I expect it to do is to encourage articulacy in the young. — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
I am not in England; I live in the Caribbean. So I am not hungover by prizes and awards because it does… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
The Caribbean is an immense ocean that just happens to have a few islands in it. The people have an immense respect… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
The Chinese, the African, and the European - they are all there. So the division of the Caribbean experience into being emphatically… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
I'm from the island of St. Lucia in the Caribbean in the Lesser Antilles, the lower part of the archipelago, which is… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
Miscegenation is not an idea that we would have in the Caribbean. It wouldn't come up because anybody could marry anybody, you… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
My delight in things is definitely Caribbean. It has to do with landscape and food. The fact that my language may have… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
“As human beings we’ve certainly suffered the loss of awe, the loss of sacredness, and the loss of the fact that we’re… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
Memory that yearns to join the centre, a limb remembering the body from which it has been severed, like those bamboo thighs of the… — Derek Walcott Copy Share
I don't feel I've arrived home until I get on the beach. All my life, the theater of the sea has been a very… — Derek Walcott Copy Share
“As human beings we’ve certainly suffered the loss of awe, the loss of sacredness, and the loss of the fact that we’re not here—… — Derek Walcott Copy Share
“I shall unlearn feeling, unlearn my gift. That is greater and harder than what passes there for life.” — Derek Walcott Copy Share
The greatest writers have been, at heart, parochial, provincial in their rootedness. — Derek Walcott Copy Share
The time will come when, with elation you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror and each will smile… — Derek Walcott Copy Share
Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was… — Derek Walcott Copy Share
My mother, who is nearly ninety now, still talks continually about my father. All my life, I've been aware of her grief about his… — Derek Walcott Copy Share
My family background really only consists of my mother. She was a widow. My father died quite young; he must have been thirty-one. Then… — Derek Walcott Copy Share
Like any art, what is the most imprisoning thing is also the most delivering thing. If an actor knows he only has 12 syllables… — Derek Walcott Copy Share
The history of the world - by which, of course, we mean Europe - is a record of intertribal lacerations, of ethnic cleansings. — Derek Walcott Copy Share
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 Copy Share
