"In Eden who sleeps happiest? The serpent." — Derek Walcott
"In Eden who sleeps happiest? The serpent."
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Derek Walcott
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37 Quotes by Derek Walcott
Derek Walcott has 37 quotes on this site.
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Peel your own image from the mirror. Sit. Feast on your life.
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Any serious attempt to try to do something worthwhile is ritualistic.
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The English language is nobody's special property.
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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…
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The classics can console. But not enough.
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I have never separated the writing of poetry from prayer. I have grown up believing it is a vocation, a…
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A culture, we all know, is made by its cities.
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We make too much of that long groan which underlines the past.
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The sigh of History rises over ruins, not over landscapes, and in the Antilles there are few ruins to sigh…
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The word and the shadow of the word / makes a thing both itself and something else / till we…
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To change your language you must change your life.
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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…
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More Eden Quotes
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God is a God who has not given up on His people. If He wanted to give up, He would…
— Kirk Cameron
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The essence of Christianity is told us in the Garden of Eden history. The fruit that was forbidden was on…
— Frank Zappa
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Who loves a garden, still his Eden keeps, Perennial pleasures plants, and wholesome harvests reaps.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
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Love doesn't grow on trees like apples in Eden - it's something you have to make. And you must use…
— Joyce Cary
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In our first paradise in Eden there was a way to go out but no way to go in again.…
— Richard Baxter
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Where the apple reddens never pry - lest we lose our Edens, Eve and I.
— Robert Browning
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It gets to seem as if way back in the Garden of Eden after the fall, Adam and Eve had…
— Diane Arbus
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Who can explain the secret pathos of Nature's loveliness? It is a touch of melancholy inherited from our mother Eve.…
— Henry Van Dyke
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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
— Nadine Gordimer
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Through the death of Christ on the cross making atonement for sin, we get a perfect standing before God. That…
— A C Dixon
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If all the animals and man had been evolved in this ascendant manner, then there had been no first parents,…
— H.G. Wells
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These two imparadised in one another's arms, the happier Eden, shall enjoy their fill of bliss on bliss.
— John Milton
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