"We make too much of that long groan……" — Derek Walcott
"We make too much of that long groan which underlines the past."
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37 Quotes by Derek Walcott
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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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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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We read, we travel, we become.
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More Groan Quotes
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...True prayer is measured by weight, not by length. A single groan before God may have more fullness of prayer…
— Charles Spurgeon
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It is a sad thing when you hear Christians with a groan in them. When I meet the groaner, I…
— John G. Lake
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In misery's darkest cavern known, His useful care was ever nigh Where hopeless anguish pour'd his groan, And lonely want…
— Samuel Johnson
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They're very tenacious. They're dedicated. Once a woman decides she's going to do something, she'll probably stick to it. The…
— Arthur Lydiard
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You never hear Jesus say in Pilate's judgement hall one word that would let you imagine that He was sorry…
— Charles Spurgeon
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Sometimes I can only groan, and suffer, and pour out my despair at the piano.
— Frederic Chopin
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When the righteous rule, the people rejoice; when the wicked rule, the people groan.
— William Paterson
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To each his suff'rings; all are men, Condemn'd alike to groan,- The tender for another's pain, Th' unfeeling for his…
— Thomas Gray
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The next time you’re tempted to groan, you might try to laugh instead. It will extend your life and make…
— Joseph B. Wirthlin
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To boldly grow where no one has groan before.
— David Hobson
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Regardless of your age or current physical condition you'll laugh, cry, moan, groan, sweat and experience the most exciting, hard…
— Bikram Choudhury
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We all moan and groan about the loss of the quality of life through the destruction of our ecology, and…
— Ed Asner
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