Derek Walcott Quotes

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• 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.
• The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.
• Love After Love The time will come when, with elation you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror and each…
• Love After Love all your life, whom you have ignored for another, who knows you by heart. Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,…
• I know when dark-haired evening put on her bright silk at sunset, and, folding the sea sidled under the sheet with her starry laugh, that…
• I read; I travel; I become
• … the truest writers are those who see language not as a linguistic process but as a living element…
• I too saw the wooden horse blocking the stars.
• What are men? Children who doubt.
• The future happens. No matter how much we scream.
• She's a rare vase, out of a cat's reach, on its shelf.
• 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…
• Slowly my body grows a single sound, slowly I become a bell, an oval, disembodied vowel, I grow, an owl, an aureole, white fire poesia…
• Time is the metre, memory the only plot.
• If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
• This is Port of Spain to me, a city ideal in its commercial and human proportions, where a citizen is a walker and not a…
• Because that is what such a city is, in the New World, a writer's heaven.

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