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# Derek Walcott

(1930–2017)   Poet   Saint Lucia

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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 · Page 2

> [In Eden who sleeps happiest? The serpent.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/in-eden-who-sleeps-happiest-the-serpent/)

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[Eden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/eden/)

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

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> [I have no curiosity. I'm an island boy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/i-have-no-curiosity-i-m-an-island-boy/)

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> [“…and either I’m nobody, or I’m a nation.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/and-either-i-m-nobody-or-i-m-a-nation/)

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[Nation](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/nation/)

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> [You can't write drunk.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/you-can-t-write-drunk/)

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[Drunk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/drunk/)

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> [All of Victorian verse is pentameter.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/all-of-victorian-verse-is-pentameter/)

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[Poetry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/poetry/)

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> [We read, we travel, we become.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/we-read-we-travel-we-become/)

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

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> [When you're young, influences count.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/when-you-re-young-influences-count/)

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> [My mother taught Shakespeare and used to act.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/my-mother-taught-shakespeare-and-used-to-act/)

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> [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/)

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[Inspirational](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/inspirational/)

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> [I too saw the wooden horse blocking the stars.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/i-too-saw-the-wooden-horse-blocking-the-stars/)

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> [The future happens. No matter how much we scream.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/the-future-happens-no-matter-how-much-we-scream/)

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[Future](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/future/)

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> [The mirror is believed the way a poem is believed. It's believed because it's there.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/the-mirror-is-believed-the-way-a-poem-is-believed-it-s-believed/)

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> [When poems are no good they don't make any sense.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/when-poems-are-no-good-they-don-t-make-any-sense/)

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> [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/)

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> [I am primarily, absolutely a Caribbean writer.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/i-am-primarily-absolutely-a-caribbean-writer/)

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> [I don't think there is any such thing as a black writer or a white writer. Ultimately, there is someone whom one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/i-don-t-think-there-is-any-such-thing-as-a-black-writer-or-a-white/)

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> [My first book of poems was published privately in 1949. That was my mother. The book was '25 Poems.' It cost 200 dollars.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/my-first-book-of-poems-was-published-privately-in-1949-that-was-my/)

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[Book](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/book/)

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> [I don't want to write poems about the royal wedding. I would have to be moved by the event.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/i-don-t-want-to-write-poems-about-the-royal-wedding-i-would-have-to/)

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

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> [Creating a poem is a continual process of re-creating your ignorance, in the sense of not knowing what's coming next.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/creating-a-poem-is-a-continual-process-of-re-creating-your-ignorance/)

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[Ignorance](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ignorance/)

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

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[Bamboo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bamboo/)

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> [The word and the shadow of the word / makes a thing both itself and something else / till we are metaphors…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/the-word-and-the-shadow-of-the-word-makes-a-thing-both-itself-and/)

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[Inspirational](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/inspirational/)

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> [The older I get, the more aware I am of the banality and indifference of a place like Trinidad to any development…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/the-older-i-get-the-more-aware-i-am-of-the-banality-and-indifference/)

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[Art](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/art/)

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> [There is a force of exultation, a celebration of luck, when a writer finds himself a witness to the early morning of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/there-is-a-force-of-exultation-a-celebration-of-luck-when-a-writer/)

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[Culture](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/culture/)

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> [That's another pompous expression that is out of fashion, to say that poetry is a gift. It sounds pompous because you say,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/that-s-another-pompous-expression-that-is-out-of-fashion-to-say-that/)

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[Beautiful](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/beautiful/)

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> [This is Port of Spain to me, a city ideal in its commercial and human proportions, where a citizen is a walker…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/this-is-port-of-spain-to-me-a-city-ideal-in-its-commercial-and-human/)

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[Athens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/athens/)

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> [My dedication to trying to be a poet started very, very young, and I was very well encouraged by good teachers and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/my-dedication-to-trying-to-be-a-poet-started-very-very-young-and-i/)

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[Dedication](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/dedication/)

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> [My mother hid the struggle from us children. She complained about her salary, and she had a tough time. Although she became…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/my-mother-hid-the-struggle-from-us-children-she-complained-about-her/)

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

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> [Miscegenation is not an idea that we would have in the Caribbean. It wouldn't come up because anybody could marry anybody, you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/miscegenation-is-not-an-idea-that-we-would-have-in-the-caribbean-it/)

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

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> [I hate all that nonsense about not touching the colonialists' language. All that about it being corrupting and belonging to the master…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/i-hate-all-that-nonsense-about-not-touching-the-colonialists-language/)

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[Belonging](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/belonging/)

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> [What is taught in schools generally in the West Indies is that if something is your thing, it's better than anybody else's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/what-is-taught-in-schools-generally-in-the-west-indies-is-that-if/)

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[Absurdity](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/absurdity/)

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> [Time is the metre, memory the only plot.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/time-is-the-metre-memory-the-only-plot/)

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[Inspirational](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/inspirational/)

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> [Minor writers think style is all.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/minor-writers-think-style-is-all/)

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> [How can I turn from Africa and live?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/how-can-i-turn-from-africa-and-live/)

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[Africa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/africa/)

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> [What are men? Children who doubt.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/what-are-men-children-who-doubt/)

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

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> [Damn wind shift sudden as a woman mind.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/damn-wind-shift-sudden-as-a-woman-mind/)

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> [She's a rare vase, out of a cat's reach, on its shelf.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/she-s-a-rare-vase-out-of-a-cat-s-reach-on-its-shelf/)

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> [There's always a need at a critical time for poetry.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/there-s-always-a-need-at-a-critical-time-for-poetry/)

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> [I didn't pass the scholarship exam for Oxford because of poor mathematics.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/i-didn-t-pass-the-scholarship-exam-for-oxford-because-of-poor/)

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