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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 4

> [Americans are not brought up with meter. They're not brought up with poetry. If you try to get them to recite, they're…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/americans-are-not-brought-up-with-meter-they-re-not-brought-up-with/)

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> [The painter I really thought I could learn from was Cezanne - some sort of resemblance to oranges and greens and browns…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/the-painter-i-really-thought-i-could-learn-from-was-cezanne-some-sort/)

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> [There is a restless identity in the New World. The New World needs an identity without guilt or blame.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/there-is-a-restless-identity-in-the-new-world-the-new-world-needs-an/)

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> [The sigh of History rises over ruins, not over landscapes, and in the Antilles there are few ruins to sigh over, apart…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/the-sigh-of-history-rises-over-ruins-not-over-landscapes-and-in-the/)

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> [I have never separated the writing of poetry from prayer. I have grown up believing it is a vocation, a religious vocation.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/i-have-never-separated-the-writing-of-poetry-from-prayer-i-have-grown/)

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> [The headmaster asked to read one of my poems at some celebration or other when I was about 10. When I look…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/the-headmaster-asked-to-read-one-of-my-poems-at-some-celebration-or/)

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> [I'm read in the Caribbean with justice, with fairness. What I expect it to do is to encourage articulacy in the young.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/i-m-read-in-the-caribbean-with-justice-with-fairness-what-i-expect-it/)

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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-2/)

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> [Look at Allen Ginsberg. In poems like 'Kaddish' and 'Howl,' you can hear a cantor between the lines. It's fully alive, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/look-at-allen-ginsberg-in-poems-like-kaddish-and-howl-you-can-hear-a/)

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> [I know when dark-haired evening put on her bright silk at sunset, and, folding the sea sidled under the sheet with her…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/i-know-when-dark-haired-evening-put-on-her-bright-silk-at-sunset-and/)

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> [“Summer for prose and lemons, for nakedness and languor, for the eternal idleness of the imagined return, for rare flutes and bare…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/summer-for-prose-and-lemons-for-nakedness-and-languor-for-the-eternal/)

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> [What was moving, I think, was the fact that the statue is a woman and not a heroic, manly figure. So for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/what-was-moving-i-think-was-the-fact-that-the-statue-is-a-woman-and/)

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> [You would get some fantastic syntactical phenomena. You would hear people talking in Barbados in the exact melody as a minor character…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/you-would-get-some-fantastic-syntactical-phenomena-you-would-hear/)

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> [All of the Antilles, every island, is an effort of memory: every mind, every racial biography culminating in amnesia and fog. Pieces…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/all-of-the-antilles-every-island-is-an-effort-of-memory-every-mind/)

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> [I come from a place that likes grandeur; it likes large gestures. It is not inhibited by flourish. It is a rhetorical…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/i-come-from-a-place-that-likes-grandeur-it-likes-large-gestures-it-is/)

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> [Poets are always making waves. I mean, you know, in an ideal situation, the ideal republic can't tolerate poets because - it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/poets-are-always-making-waves-i-mean-you-know-in-an-ideal-situation/)

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> [My mother, who is nearly ninety now, still talks continually about my father. All my life, I've been aware of her grief…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/my-mother-who-is-nearly-ninety-now-still-talks-continually-about-my/)

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> [The personal vocabulary, the individual melody whose metre is one's biography, joins in that sound, with any luck, and the body moves…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/the-personal-vocabulary-the-individual-melody-whose-metre-is-one-s/)

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> [I am not in England; I live in the Caribbean. So I am not hungover by prizes and awards because it does…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/i-am-not-in-england-i-live-in-the-caribbean-so-i-am-not-hungover-by/)

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> [After a while, when the writer is mature, it doesn't really matter - not because of finances but because of reputation. It…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/after-a-while-when-the-writer-is-mature-it-doesn-t-really-matter-not/)

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> [Musical composition, about which I know little, is a complicated art, and some contemporary music may be the equivalent of a complex…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/musical-composition-about-which-i-know-little-is-a-complicated-art/)

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> [As much as I like teaching and students, it's a kind of rigor, a discipline, that's against my body.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/as-much-as-i-like-teaching-and-students-it-s-a-kind-of-rigor-a/)

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> [What makes a poem is the discipline inherent in making a poem: trying to fit feelings in the requisite number of syllables…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/what-makes-a-poem-is-the-discipline-inherent-in-making-a-poem-trying/)

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> [The discontent that lies in the human condition is not satisfied simply by material things.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/the-discontent-that-lies-in-the-human-condition-is-not-satisfied/)

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> [If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/if-you-know-what-you-are-going-to-write-when-you-re-writing-a-poem-it/)

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> [Our artists and writers should not be forced like soldiers to die on foreign soil or to return wounded and crawl famously…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/our-artists-and-writers-should-not-be-forced-like-soldiers-to-die-on/)

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> [The number of people who read a poem is not as important as how the poem affects those who read it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/the-number-of-people-who-read-a-poem-is-not-as-important-as-how-the/)

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> [I'd rather have just one person who reads and feels my work deeply than hundreds of thousands who read it but don't…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/i-d-rather-have-just-one-person-who-reads-and-feels-my-work-deeply/)

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> [My generation produced some terrific writers from all over, and the great thing about it is that they were all mixed in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/my-generation-produced-some-terrific-writers-from-all-over-and-the/)

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> [Rhyme is an attempt to reassemble and reaffirm the possibility of paradise. There is a wholeness, a serenity, in sounds coupling to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/rhyme-is-an-attempt-to-reassemble-and-reaffirm-the-possibility-of/)

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> [I write plays and poetry at the same time, and I'm always refining, but I'm not obsessive about it. It's what I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/i-write-plays-and-poetry-at-the-same-time-and-i-m-always-refining-but/)

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> [“For there is a time in the tide of the heart, when Arrived at its anchor of suffering, a grave Or a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/for-there-is-a-time-in-the-tide-of-the-heart-when-arrived-at-its/)

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> [I can't tear up a poem and be a sound bite for you. Why is that so hard for anyone to understand?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/i-can-t-tear-up-a-poem-and-be-a-sound-bite-for-you-why-is-that-so/)

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> [The thing a writer has to avoid is being the 'voice' of his people and pretending he can speak for them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/the-thing-a-writer-has-to-avoid-is-being-the-voice-of-his-people-and/)

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> [“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-2/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/a-noun-is-not-a-name-you-give-something-it-is-something-you-watch/)

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> [The Chinese, the African, and the European - they are all there. So the division of the Caribbean experience into being emphatically…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/the-chinese-the-african-and-the-european-they-are-all-there-so-the/)

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> [The Caribbean is an immense ocean that just happens to have a few islands in it. The people have an immense respect…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/the-caribbean-is-an-immense-ocean-that-just-happens-to-have-a-few/)

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> [The history of the world - by which, of course, we mean Europe - is a record of intertribal lacerations, of ethnic…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/the-history-of-the-world-by-which-of-course-we-mean-europe-is-a/)

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> [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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