"The word and the shadow of the word……" — Derek Walcott
"The word and the shadow of the word / makes a thing both itself and something else / till we are metaphors and not ourselves . . ."
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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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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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We read, we travel, we become.
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