--- title: "Best Derek Walcott Words" description: "Sir Derek Alton Walcott was a Saint Lucian poet and playwright. Browse 177 Derek Walcott quotes." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b008/author-derek-walcott-28871.jpg" --- ![Portrait of Derek Walcott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b008/author-derek-walcott-28871.jpg) # Derek Walcott (1930–2017) Poet Saint Lucia **177** quotes in **541** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet 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 5 > [I am grateful, you know. I have to be grateful in the sense that I feel that what I have is a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/i-am-grateful-you-know-i-have-to-be-grateful-in-the-sense-that-i-feel/) [Derek Walcott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/derek-walcott/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/177/derek-walcott-2220_feel_i-am-grateful-you-know-i-have-to-be-grat_2663451.jpg) > [I made a vow that I wouldn't be tempted by what could happen to me if I went to Europe. I thought,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/i-made-a-vow-that-i-wouldn-t-be-tempted-by-what-could-happen-to-me-if/) [Derek Walcott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/derek-walcott/) [Europe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/europe/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6fb/derek-walcott-2220_europe_i-made-a-vow-that-i-wouldn-t-be-tempted_2675654.jpg) > [I go back to St. Lucia, and the exhilaration I feel is not simply the exhilaration of homecoming and of nostalgia. It…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/i-go-back-to-st-lucia-and-the-exhilaration-i-feel-is-not-simply-the/) [Derek Walcott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/derek-walcott/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/407/derek-walcott-2220_another-chance_i-go-back-to-st-lucia-and-the-exhilarati_1737160.jpg) > [When I went to college - when I read Shakespeare or Dickens or Scott - I just felt that, as a citizen…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/when-i-went-to-college-when-i-read-shakespeare-or-dickens-or-scott-i/) [Derek Walcott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/derek-walcott/) [Books](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/books/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eff/derek-walcott-2220_books_when-i-went-to-college-when-i-read-shake_1825314.jpg) > [Love After Love all your life, whom you have ignored for another, who knows you by heart. Take down the love letters…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/love-after-love-all-your-life-whom-you-have-ignored-for-another-who/) [Derek Walcott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/derek-walcott/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f81/derek-walcott-2220_bookshelves_love-after-love-all-your-life-whom-you-h_2697459.jpg) > [My delight in things is definitely Caribbean. It has to do with landscape and food. The fact that my language may have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/my-delight-in-things-is-definitely-caribbean-it-has-to-do-with/) [Derek Walcott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/derek-walcott/) [Caribbean](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/caribbean/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/39f/derek-walcott-2220_caribbean_my-delight-in-things-is-definitely-carib_338542.jpg) > [I can be upset by malice. Most critics are very poor poets. Poetry is a craft that takes a lot to appreciate,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/i-can-be-upset-by-malice-most-critics-are-very-poor-poets-poetry-is-a/) [Derek Walcott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/derek-walcott/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b44/derek-walcott-2220_poetry_i-can-be-upset-by-malice-most-critics-ar_1361836.jpg) > [The country that I was coming from, the island I was in, hadn't been written about, really. So I thought that I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/the-country-that-i-was-coming-from-the-island-i-was-in-hadn-t-been/) [Derek Walcott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/derek-walcott/) [Country](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/country/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/800/derek-walcott-2220_country_the-country-that-i-was-coming-from-the-i_593027.jpg) > [Ted Hughes is dead. That's a fact, OK. Then there's something called the poetry of Ted Hughes. The poetry of Ted Hughes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/ted-hughes-is-dead-that-s-a-fact-ok-then-there-s-something-called-the/) [Derek Walcott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/derek-walcott/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/287/derek-walcott-2220_dead_ted-hughes-is-dead-that-s-a-fact-ok-then_1834007.jpg) > [A long time ago, I thought, as a writer in the Caribbean, 'I don't ever want to have to write 'It was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/a-long-time-ago-i-thought-as-a-writer-in-the-caribbean-i-don-t-ever/) [Derek Walcott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/derek-walcott/) [Experience](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/experience/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ea3/derek-walcott-2220_experience_a-long-time-ago-i-thought-as-a-writer-in_1748508.jpg) > [My family background really only consists of my mother. She was a widow. My father died quite young; he must have been…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/my-family-background-really-only-consists-of-my-mother-she-was-a/) [Derek Walcott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/derek-walcott/) [Brother](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/brother/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/af2/derek-walcott-2220_brother_my-family-background-really-only-consist_134286.jpg) > [“Today is Thursday, Vallejo is dying, but come, girl, get your raincoat, let's look for life in some cafe behind tear-streaked windows,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/today-is-thursday-vallejo-is-dying-but-come-girl-get-your-raincoat/) [Derek Walcott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/derek-walcott/) [Piano playing](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/piano-playing/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dde/derek-walcott-2220_piano-playing_today-is-thursday-vallejo-is-dying-but-c_1243417.jpg) > [I always have difficulty with the Greek tragic plays. I think the difficulty one has - which is a serious problem -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/i-always-have-difficulty-with-the-greek-tragic-plays-i-think-the/) [Derek Walcott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/derek-walcott/) [Belief](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/belief/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1f3/derek-walcott-2220_belief_i-always-have-difficulty-with-the-greek_330942.jpg) > [Individual writers have different postures, different stances, even different physical attitudes as they stand or sit over their blank paper, and in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/individual-writers-have-different-postures-different-stances-even/) [Derek Walcott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/derek-walcott/) [Blank paper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/blank-paper/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9a2/derek-walcott-2220_blank-paper_individual-writers-have-different-postur_2458718.jpg) > [“Who is the man who can speak to the strong? Where is the fool who can talk to the wise? Men who…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/who-is-the-man-who-can-speak-to-the-strong-where-is-the-fool-who-can/) [Derek Walcott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/derek-walcott/) [Bitterness](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bitterness/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8a8/derek-walcott-2220_bitterness_who-is-the-man-who-can-speak-to-the-stro_2151108.jpg) > [There is no one more deserving of a place in Poets' Corner. Ted Hughes introduced a new kind of landscape into English…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/there-is-no-one-more-deserving-of-a-place-in-poets-corner-ted-hughes/) [Derek Walcott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/derek-walcott/) [English poetry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/english-poetry/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f63/derek-walcott-2220_english-poetry_there-is-no-one-more-deserving-of-a-plac_1122864.jpg) > [Good science and good art are always about a condition of awe. I don't think there is any other function for the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/good-science-and-good-art-are-always-about-a-condition-of-awe-i-don-t/) [Derek Walcott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/derek-walcott/) [Art](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/art/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/645/derek-walcott-2220_art_good-science-and-good-art-are-always-abo_683529.jpg) ## Derek Walcott by topic [Poetry (44)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/poetry/derek-walcott/) [Writing (33)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/writing/derek-walcott/) [Language (15)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/language/derek-walcott/) [Caribbean (14)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/caribbean/derek-walcott/) [Writer (13)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/writer/derek-walcott/) [Time (11)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/time/derek-walcott/) [Love (10)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/love/derek-walcott/) [Life (10)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/life/derek-walcott/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/derek-walcott/#itemlist", "name": "Derek Walcott Quotes", "numberOfItems": 17, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I am grateful, you know. 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