"The future happens. No matter how much we…" — Derek Walcott
"The future happens. No matter how much we scream."
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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 Future Quotes
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Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this…
— Hannah Arendt
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The future of Haiti must be linked to the respect of the rights of every single citizen.
— Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect, so why practice?
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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I'm substantially concerned about the policy directions of the space agency. We have a situation in the U.S. where the…
— Neil Armstrong
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Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of…
— Isaac Asimov
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People talk about doom-laden scenarios happening in the future: they are happening in Africa now. You can see it perfectly…
— David Attenborough
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As soon as you have a language that has a past tense and a future tense you're going to say,…
— Margaret Atwood
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Always remember that the future comes one day at a time.
— Dean Acheson
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Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, 'This is a…
— Marcus Aurelius
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What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and…
— Sai Baba
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