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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 3

> [The English language is nobody's special property.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/the-english-language-is-nobody-s-special-property/)

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[English](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/english/)

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> [I look in the mirror. There's me. What's in the mirror is not real. So am I unreal?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/i-look-in-the-mirror-there-s-me-what-s-in-the-mirror-is-not-real-so/)

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> [Summer for prose and lemons, for nakedness and languor,](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/summer-for-prose-and-lemons-for-nakedness-and-languor/)

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

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> [The first thing we have to do is get rid of the pentameter. To ditch the pentameter.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/the-first-thing-we-have-to-do-is-get-rid-of-the-pentameter-to-ditch/)

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> [My relationship to Britain is of no consequence.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/my-relationship-to-britain-is-of-no-consequence/)

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[Britain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/britain/)

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> [I think young writers ought to be heretical.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/i-think-young-writers-ought-to-be-heretical/)

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[Heretical](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/heretical/)

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> [My body's urge is to be in a pair of shorts, working and going down to the beach.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/my-body-s-urge-is-to-be-in-a-pair-of-shorts-working-and-going-down-to/)

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[Beach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/beach/)

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> [To change your language you must change your life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/to-change-your-language-you-must-change-your-life/)

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[Change](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/change/)

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> [Anybody great, we're all interested in the relics. If you found an unfinished Gauguin, you'd still want to see it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/anybody-great-we-re-all-interested-in-the-relics-if-you-found-an/)

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> [I don't feel I've arrived home until I get on the beach. All my life, the theater of the sea has been…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/i-don-t-feel-i-ve-arrived-home-until-i-get-on-the-beach-all-my-life/)

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[Beach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/beach/)

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> [In painting, you don't have to go through a process of opinion; it speaks directly, and either it works, or it doesn't.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/in-painting-you-don-t-have-to-go-through-a-process-of-opinion-it/)

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[Artist](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/artist/)

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> [Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean; it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty, the sigh of History dissolves.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/visual-surprise-is-natural-in-the-caribbean-it-comes-with-the/)

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[Beauty](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/beauty/)

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> [“Who with the Devil tries to play fair, weaves the net of his own despair. Oh, smile; what’s a house between drunkards?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/who-with-the-devil-tries-to-play-fair-weaves-the-net-of-his-own/)

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[Despair](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/despair/)

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> [I have to live, socially, in an almost unfinished society. Among the almost great, among the almost true, among the almost honest.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/i-have-to-live-socially-in-an-almost-unfinished-society-among-the/)

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[Community](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/community/)

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> [I am not defined as a black writer in the Caribbean, but as soon as I go to America or the U.K.,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/i-am-not-defined-as-a-black-writer-in-the-caribbean-but-as-soon-as-i/)

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[America](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/america/)

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> [I grew up in a place in which, if you learned poetry, you shouted it out. Boys would scream it out and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/i-grew-up-in-a-place-in-which-if-you-learned-poetry-you-shouted-it/)

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> [A fisherman, say, working on a beach doing his job, may be photographed by a tourist because it's photogenic to see him…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/a-fisherman-say-working-on-a-beach-doing-his-job-may-be-photographed/)

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[Beach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/beach/)

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> [“The second Adam since the fall His germinal Corruption held the seed Of that congenital heresy that men fail According to their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/the-second-adam-since-the-fall-his-germinal-corruption-held-the-seed/)

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> [I think I would have been a totally different kind of writer if I'd gone to England. I might have developed a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/i-think-i-would-have-been-a-totally-different-kind-of-writer-if-i-d/)

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[Cynicism](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/cynicism/)

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> [When I come to England, I don't claim England; I don't own it. I feel a great kinship because of the literature…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/when-i-come-to-england-i-don-t-claim-england-i-don-t-own-it-i-feel-a/)

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> [There are certain functions that a writer has to do. In a time of crisis, it is great to have heroic poems,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/there-are-certain-functions-that-a-writer-has-to-do-in-a-time-of/)

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[Crisis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/crisis/)

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> [“Let them run ahead. Then I’ll have good reason for shooting them down. Sharpeville? Attempting to escape. Attempting to escape from the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/let-them-run-ahead-then-i-ll-have-good-reason-for-shooting-them-down/)

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[Crime](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/crime/)

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> [I don't believe that poetry is in danger because nobody wants to read it or appreciate it. There is a tremendous audience…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/i-don-t-believe-that-poetry-is-in-danger-because-nobody-wants-to-read/)

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> [I don't know what would have happened to me as a writer if I had gone to England and shaped my life…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/i-don-t-know-what-would-have-happened-to-me-as-a-writer-if-i-had-gone/)

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[England](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/england/)

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> [We make too much of that long groan which underlines the past.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/we-make-too-much-of-that-long-groan-which-underlines-the-past/)

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> [I consider the sound of the sea to be part of my body.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/i-consider-the-sound-of-the-sea-to-be-part-of-my-body/)

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[Body](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/body/)

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> [Any serious attempt to try to do something worthwhile is ritualistic.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/any-serious-attempt-to-try-to-do-something-worthwhile-is-ritualistic/)

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> [The voice does go up in a poem. It is an address, even if it is to oneself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/the-voice-does-go-up-in-a-poem-it-is-an-address-even-if-it-is-to/)

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> [If you talk about language in the Caribbean, you must relate it to history.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/if-you-talk-about-language-in-the-caribbean-you-must-relate-it-to/)

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

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> [Who cares about a kid from the Midwest writing pentameter? It's stupid.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/who-cares-about-a-kid-from-the-midwest-writing-pentameter-it-s-stupid/)

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[Care](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/care/)

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> [I have never felt inhibited in trying to write as well as the greatest English poets.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/i-have-never-felt-inhibited-in-trying-to-write-as-well-as-the/)

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> [I always knew that was what I wanted to do - to write, particularly poetry.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/i-always-knew-that-was-what-i-wanted-to-do-to-write-particularly/)

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> [If music goes out of language, then you are in bad trouble.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/if-music-goes-out-of-language-then-you-are-in-bad-trouble/)

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> [There's a ritualistic element to tragedy that everyone shares; there's something curiously glorious in terms of the most horrible kind of events…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/there-s-a-ritualistic-element-to-tragedy-that-everyone-shares-there-s/)

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> [I don't feel like a celebrity. Poetry justifies celebrity. It's good to have respect for a poet.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/i-don-t-feel-like-a-celebrity-poetry-justifies-celebrity-it-s-good-to/)

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[Celebrity](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/celebrity/)

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> [My mother was a schoolteacher and very, very encouraging. She understood what it meant when I said I wanted to be a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/my-mother-was-a-schoolteacher-and-very-very-encouraging-she/)

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[Brother](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/brother/)

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> [Art is History's nostalgia, it prefers a thatched roof to a concrete factory, and the huge church above a bleached village.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/art-is-history-s-nostalgia-it-prefers-a-thatched-roof-to-a-concrete/)

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> [Slowly my body grows a single sound, slowly I become a bell, an oval, disembodied vowel, I grow, an owl, an aureole,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/slowly-my-body-grows-a-single-sound-slowly-i-become-a-bell-an-oval/)

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[Bells](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bells/)

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> [The Caribbean is not an idyll, not to its natives. They draw their working strength from it organically, like trees, like the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/the-caribbean-is-not-an-idyll-not-to-its-natives-they-draw-their/)

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

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> [You can't read to yourself. It's your inner ear that hears a poem. If you hear a poet read his own work,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/you-can-t-read-to-yourself-it-s-your-inner-ear-that-hears-a-poem-if/)

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

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## Derek Walcott by topic

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