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> [“Bleecker Street, Summer" Summer for prose and lemons, for nakedness and languor, for the eternal idleness of the imagined return, for rare flutes and bare feet, and the August bedroom of tangled sheets and the Sunday salt, ah violin! When…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/bleecker-street-summer-summer-for-prose-and-lemons-for-nakedness-and/)

[Derek Walcott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/derek-walcott/)

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> [“Summer for prose and lemons, for nakedness and languor, for the eternal idleness of the imagined return, for rare flutes and bare feet, and the August bedroom of tangled sheets.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/summer-for-prose-and-lemons-for-nakedness-and-languor-for-the-eternal/)

[Derek Walcott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/derek-walcott/)

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## More by Derek Walcott

> [Memory that yearns to join the centre, a limb remembering the body from which it has been severed, like those bamboo thighs of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/memory-that-yearns-to-join-the-centre-a-limb-remembering-the-body/)

[Derek Walcott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/derek-walcott/)

> [Peel your own image from the mirror. Sit. Feast on your life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/peel-your-own-image-from-the-mirror-sit-feast-on-your-life/)

[Derek Walcott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/derek-walcott/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/i-don-t-feel-i-ve-arrived-home-until-i-get-on-the-beach-all-my-life/)

[Derek Walcott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/derek-walcott/)

> [“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—…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/as-human-beings-we-ve-certainly-suffered-the-loss-of-awe-the-loss-of/)

[Derek Walcott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/derek-walcott/)

> [“I shall unlearn feeling, unlearn my gift. That is greater and harder than what passes there for life.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/i-shall-unlearn-feeling-unlearn-my-gift-that-is-greater-and-harder/)

[Derek Walcott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/derek-walcott/)

> [The greatest writers have been, at heart, parochial, provincial in their rootedness.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/the-greatest-writers-have-been-at-heart-parochial-provincial-in-their/)

[Derek Walcott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/the-time-will-come-when-with-elation-you-will-greet-yourself-arriving/)

[Derek Walcott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/break-a-vase-and-the-love-that-reassembles-the-fragments-is-stronger/)

[Derek Walcott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/derek-walcott/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/my-mother-who-is-nearly-ninety-now-still-talks-continually-about-my/)

[Derek Walcott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/derek-walcott/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/my-family-background-really-only-consists-of-my-mother-she-was-a/)

[Derek Walcott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/derek-walcott/)

> [“I am the man my father loved and was.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/i-am-the-man-my-father-loved-and-was/)

[Derek Walcott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/derek-walcott/)

> [Like any art, what is the most imprisoning thing is also the most delivering thing. If an actor knows he only has 12 syllables…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/like-any-art-what-is-the-most-imprisoning-thing-is-also-the-most/)

[Derek Walcott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/derek-walcott/)

> [The thing that is believed is a reality.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/the-thing-that-is-believed-is-a-reality/)

[Derek Walcott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/derek-walcott/)

> [The history of the world - by which, of course, we mean Europe - is a record of intertribal lacerations, of ethnic cleansings.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/the-history-of-the-world-by-which-of-course-we-mean-europe-is-a/)

[Derek Walcott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/the-english-language-is-nobody-s-special-property-it-is-the-property/)

[Derek Walcott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/derek-walcott/)

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