"She's a rare vase, out of a cat's…" — Derek Walcott
"She's a rare vase, out of a cat's reach, on its shelf."
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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 Cat Quotes
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one of 2,174 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat…
— Sri Aurobindo
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Where do we say that a cell became a blade of grass, which became a starfish, which became a cat,…
— Michele Bachmann
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Cats are very independent animals. They're very sexy, if you want. Dogs are different. They're familiar. They're obedient. You call…
— Antonio Banderas
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If you call a cat, he may not come. Which doesn't happen with dogs. They're different types of animals. Cats…
— Antonio Banderas
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I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a…
— Charles Baudelaire
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There's kind of a toll you have to pay with a cat; if you don't pet her for 10 minutes…
— Scott Adams
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I have always been an animal lover. I had a hard time disassociating the animals I cuddled with - dogs…
— Kristen Bell
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I have my favorite cat, who is my paperweight, on my desk while I am writing.
— Ray Bradbury
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I never minded flying cheap. I always said to myself, 'Taking this flight saves enough money to rescue four dogs,…
— Elayne Boosler
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My house is run, essentially, by an adopted, fully clawed cat with a mean nature.
— Anthony Bourdain
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I try to very hard to avoid a situation where I would be eating cat or dog; I've managed to…
— Anthony Bourdain
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I'm not Ted Nugent. My house is run, essentially, by an adopted, fully clawed cat with a mean nature. I…
— Anthony Bourdain
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