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# Derek Walcott

(1930–2017)   Poet   Saint Lucia

 **177** quotes in **541** categories

Derek Walcott paints the sea as a stage where his heart feels most at home. He compares a broken vase to love that becomes tougher when its pieces are put back together. He also talks about memory that clings to the body like a limb that remembers where it came from.

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Derek Walcott was a poet from Saint Lucia, best known for *Omeros*.

## Quick Facts About Derek Walcott

Born January 23, 1930

Died March 17, 2017

Nationality Saint Lucia

Profession Poet

Notable works Omeros

Known for The Capeman, Dream on Monkey Mountain, Omeros

Spouse Norline Metivier

## About Derek Walcott

Sir Derek Alton Walcott was a Saint Lucian poet and playwright.

## Awards & Honors

Nobel Prize in Literature T. S. Eliot Prize King’s / Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry Cholmondeley Award Guggenheim Fellowship Preis der Stadt Münster für Europäische Poesie MacArthur Fellows Program Order of Merit

Show 8 more awards Musgrave Medal Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards Prix Laure Bataillon PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award Officer of the Order of the British Empire Heinemann Award honorary doctorate of the University of Alcala star on Playwrights' Sidewalk

##  Quotes by Derek Walcott

> [Where I come from, we sing poetry.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/where-i-come-from-we-sing-poetry/)

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[Come](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/come/)

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> [I read; I travel; I become](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/i-read-i-travel-i-become/)

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[Books](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/books/)

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> [The truth is that the poems are ecstatic.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/the-truth-is-that-the-poems-are-ecstatic/)

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[Ecstatic](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ecstatic/)

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> [The poem is itself a mirror.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/the-poem-is-itself-a-mirror/)

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[Mirror](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/mirror/)

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> [There's always more to see.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/there-s-always-more-to-see/)

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> [The classics can console. But not enough.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/the-classics-can-console-but-not-enough/)

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[Classics](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/classics/)

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> [I feel blessed that I was gifted.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/i-feel-blessed-that-i-was-gifted/)

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[Blessed](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/blessed/)

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

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[Father](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/father/)

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> [The fate of poetry is to fall in love with the world.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/the-fate-of-poetry-is-to-fall-in-love-with-the-world/)

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[Fall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/fall/)

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> [A culture, we all know, is made by its cities.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/a-culture-we-all-know-is-made-by-its-cities/)

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[Cities](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/cities/)

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> [I think, at the heart of the idea of American democracy, there is something tender.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/i-think-at-the-heart-of-the-idea-of-american-democracy-there-is/)

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[American](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/american/)

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> [When you get a class reciting some great poems, it'll tear your heart out.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/when-you-get-a-class-reciting-some-great-poems-it-ll-tear-your-heart/)

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[Class](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/class/)

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> [I don't think poetry has a readership anywhere, really, that's that big.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/i-don-t-think-poetry-has-a-readership-anywhere-really-that-s-that-big/)

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[Anywhere](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/anywhere/)

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> [Modesty is not possible in performance in the Caribbean - and that's wonderful.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/modesty-is-not-possible-in-performance-in-the-caribbean-and-that-s/)

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[Caribbean](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/caribbean/)

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> [Because that is what such a city is, in the New World, a writer's heaven.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/because-that-is-what-such-a-city-is-in-the-new-world-a-writer-s-heaven/)

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[City](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/city/)

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> [The myth of Naipaul... has long been a farce.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/the-myth-of-naipaul-has-long-been-a-farce/)

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[Been](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/been/)

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> [What I described in 'Another Life' - about being on the hill and feeling the sort of dissolution that happened - is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/what-i-described-in-another-life-about-being-on-the-hill-and-feeling/)

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> [For every poet it is always morning in the world; history a forgotten, insomniac night. The fate of poetry is to fall…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/for-every-poet-it-is-always-morning-in-the-world-history-a-forgotten/)

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[Fall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/fall/)

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> [I am only one-eighth the writer I might have been had I contained all the fragmented languages of Trinidad.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/i-am-only-one-eighth-the-writer-i-might-have-been-had-i-contained-all/)

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[Am](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/am/)

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> [We look and see what we see in a mirror, and we believe it. That's important, the question of belief. The question…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/we-look-and-see-what-we-see-in-a-mirror-and-we-believe-it-that-s/)

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[Belief](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/belief/)

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> [… the truest writers are those who see language not as a linguistic process but as a living element…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/the-truest-writers-are-those-who-see-language-not-as-a-linguistic/)

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[Black history](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/black-history/)

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> [“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/)

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[Life](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/life/)

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> [There are some things people avoid saying in interviews because they sound pompous or sentimental or too mystical.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/there-are-some-things-people-avoid-saying-in-interviews-because-they/)

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[Avoid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/avoid/)

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> [The poet complains or points out the discontent that lies at the heart of man, the individual man, and how can that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/the-poet-complains-or-points-out-the-discontent-that-lies-at-the/)

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[Complains](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/complains/)

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

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[Actor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/actor/)

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> [I'm from the island of St. Lucia in the Caribbean in the Lesser Antilles, the lower part of the archipelago, which is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/i-m-from-the-island-of-st-lucia-in-the-caribbean-in-the-lesser/)

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[Caribbean](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/caribbean/)

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> [I was writing from a very, very early age. My father used to write. He died early, and my mother was a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/i-was-writing-from-a-very-very-early-age-my-father-used-to-write-he/)

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[Age](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/age/)

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> [When a child's mind develops and is heading in a certain direction, we murder that mentality, we murder that imagination, by saying,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/when-a-child-s-mind-develops-and-is-heading-in-a-certain-direction-we/)

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[Children](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/children/)

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> [How does a poet teach himself or herself? I think chiefly by imitation, chiefly by practising it as a deliberate technical exercise…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/how-does-a-poet-teach-himself-or-herself-i-think-chiefly-by-imitation/)

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[Fitness](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/fitness/)

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> [Sometimes what we call tragedy, at least in the theater, are really case histories. They're based on the central figure, and things…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/sometimes-what-we-call-tragedy-at-least-in-the-theater-are-really/)

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[Catharsis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/catharsis/)

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> [I knew very early what I wanted to do, and I considered myself lucky to know that's what I wanted, even in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/i-knew-very-early-what-i-wanted-to-do-and-i-considered-myself-lucky/)

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[Early](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/early/)

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> [For so long, the world has viewed West Indian culture as semiliterate and backward, which it is not. In my work, I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/for-so-long-the-world-has-viewed-west-indian-culture-as-semiliterate/)

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[Backward](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/backward/)

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> [“But drunkenly, or secretly, we swore, Disciples of that astigmatic saint, That we would never leave the island Until we had put…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/but-drunkenly-or-secretly-we-swore-disciples-of-that-astigmatic-saint/)

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[Palms](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/palms/)

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> [“A Far Cry From Africa A wind is ruffling the tawny pelt Of Africa. Kikuyu, quick as flies, Batten upon the bloodstreams…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/a-far-cry-from-africa-a-wind-is-ruffling-the-tawny-pelt-of-africa/)

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[Blood Shall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/blood-shall-1257026/)

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> [“As human beings we’ve certainly suffered the loss of awe, the loss of sacredness, and the loss of the fact that we’re…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/as-human-beings-we-ve-certainly-suffered-the-loss-of-awe-the-loss-of/)

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[Caribbean](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/caribbean/)

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> [The time will come when, with elation you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror and each…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/the-time-will-come-when-with-elation-you-will-greet-yourself-arriving/)

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[Arriving](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/arriving/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/bleecker-street-summer-summer-for-prose-and-lemons-for-nakedness-and/)

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[Bare feet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bare-feet/)

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> [“There is the buried language and there is the individual vocabulary, and the process of poetry is one of excavation and of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/there-is-the-buried-language-and-there-is-the-individual-vocabulary/)

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[Language](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/language/)

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> [“Sea Grapes" That sail which leans on light, tired of islands, a schooner beating up the Caribbean for home, could be Odysseus,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/sea-grapes-that-sail-which-leans-on-light-tired-of-islands-a-schooner/)

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[Grapes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/grapes/)

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> [“To set out for rehearsals in that quivering quarter-hour is to engage conclusions, not beginnings, for one walks past the guilded hallucinations…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/to-set-out-for-rehearsals-in-that-quivering-quarter-hour-is-to-engage/)

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[Deprivation](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/deprivation/)

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## Derek Walcott by topic

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                        "text": "“A Far Cry From Africa A wind is ruffling the tawny pelt Of Africa. Kikuyu, quick as flies, Batten upon the bloodstreams of the veldt. Corpses are scattered through a paradise. Only the worm, colonel of carrion, cries: “Waste no compassion on these separate dead!” Statistics justify and scholars seize The salients of colonial policy. What is that to the white child hacked in bed? To savages, expendable as Jews? Threshed out by beaters, the long rushes break In a white dust of ibises whose cries Have wheeled since civilization’s dawn From the parched river or beast-teeming plain. The violence of beast on beast is read As natural law, but upright man Seeks his divinity by inflicting pain. Delirious as these worried beasts, his wars Dance to the tightened carcass of a drum, While he calls courage still that native dread Of the white peace contracted by the dead. Again brutish necessity wipes its hands Upon the napkin of a dirty cause, again A waste of our compassion, as with Spain, The gorilla wrestles with the superman. I who am poisoned with the blood of both, Where shall I turn, divided to the vein? I who have cursed The drunken officer of British rule, how choose Between this Africa and the English tongue I love? Betray them both, or give back what they give? How can I face such slaughter and be cool? How can I turn from Africa and live?”",
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                        "text": "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 welcome, and say, sit here. Eat. You will love again the stranger who was your self. Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart to itself, to the stranger who has loved you all your life, whom you ignored for another, who knows you by heart. Take down the love letters from the bookshelf, the photographs, the desperate notes, peel your own image from the mirror. Sit. Feast on your life.",
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                        "text": "“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 I press summer dusks together, it is a month of street accordions and sprinklers laying the dust, small shadows running from me. It is music opening and closing, Italia mia, on Bleecker, ciao, Antonio, and the water-cries of children tearing the rose-coloured sky in streams of paper; it is dusk in the nostrils and the smell of water down littered streets that lead you to no water, and gathering islands and lemons in the mind. There is the Hudson, like the sea aflame. I would undress you in the summer heat, and laugh and dry your damp flesh if you came.”",
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                        "text": "“Sea Grapes\" That sail which leans on light, tired of islands, a schooner beating up the Caribbean for home, could be Odysseus, home-bound on the Aegean; that father and husband's longing, under gnarled sour grapes, is like the adulterer hearing Nausicaa's name in every gull's outcry. This brings nobody peace. The ancient war between obsession and responsibility will never finish and has been the same for the sea-wanderer or the one on shore now wriggling on his sandals to walk home, since Troy sighed its last flame, and the blind giant's boulder heaved the trough from whose groundswell the great hexameters come to the conclusions of exhausted surf. The classics can console. But not enough.”",
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