"This is Port of Spain to me, a……" — Derek Walcott
"This is Port of Spain to me, a city ideal in its commercial and human proportions, where a citizen is a walker and not a pedestrian, and this is how Athens may have been before it became a cultural echo."
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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 Athens Quotes
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The thing that helped me get into the film business was that I went to school in Athens, Georgia and…
— Alton Brown
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At Athens, wise men propose, and fools dispose.
— Alcuin
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When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never…
— Edith Hamilton
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I never expected to win three medals in the Athens Olympic Games. Of course, I would rather have won one…
— Marian Dragulescu
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My sisters and I were fortunate to travel through Asia and Europe at very young ages. We confronted extraordinary beauty…
— Mary Chapin Carpenter
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Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence.
— John Milton
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What Art was to the ancient world, Science is to the modern: the distinctive faculty. In the minds of men…
— Benjamin Disraeli
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Of the many smells of Athens two seem to me the most characteristic - that of garlic, bold and deadly…
— Evelyn Waugh
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I said it before we arrived in Athens, that we wanted to prove to the world that our bronze medal…
— Gianluca Basile
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What's not to love about us! People got to know Misty and me in Athens. We've continued to be successful…
— Kerri Walsh
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What bitter anguish would not the people of Athens have often escaped if their government had contained so provident a…
— Alexander Hamilton
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When will there be justice in Athens? There will be justice in Athens when those who are not injured are…
— Thucydides
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