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> [A noun is not a name you give something. It is something you watch becoming itself, and you have to have the patience to find out what it is.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/a-noun-is-not-a-name-you-give-something-it-is-something-you-watch/)

[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/)

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