Derek Walcott Quotes - Page 2

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• Love After Love all your life, whom you have ignored for another, who knows you by heart. Take down the love letters from the bookshelf, the photographs, the desperate notes, peel your own image from the mirror. Sit. Feast on your life.

  Derek Walcott

  Heart, Mirrors, Letters

  Derek Walcott (2014). “The Poetry of Derek Walcott 1948-2013”, p.227, Macmillan

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• The thing that is believed is a reality.

  Derek Walcott

  Reality

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• We look and see what we see in a mirror, and we believe it. That's important, the question of belief. The question is: Should we believe what we see in a mirror?

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  Believe, Mirrors, Important

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• How can I turn from Africa and live?

  Derek Walcott

  Turns

  Derek Walcott (2014). “Selected Poems”, p.6, Macmillan

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• The English language is nobody's special property.

  Derek Walcott

  Special, Language, English Language

  "Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, Eighth Series". Book edited by George Plimpton, 1988.

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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 body moves like a walking, a waking island.

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  Moving, Vocabulary, Islands

  Derek Walcott (2014). “What the Twilight Says: Essays”, p.79, Macmillan

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• We read, we travel, we become.

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  Derek Walcott (2014). “The Prodigal: A Poem”, p.31, Macmillan

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• I try to forget what happiness was, and when that don't work, I study the stars.

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  Stars, Trying, Study

  Derek Walcott (2014). “The Star-Apple Kingdom”, p.18, Macmillan

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• Slowly my body grows a single sound, slowly I become a bell, an oval, disembodied vowel, I grow, an owl, an aureole, white fire poesia "Metamorfosi, I. Luna

  Derek Walcott

  Fire, White, Owl

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• The word and the shadow of the word / makes a thing both itself and something else / till we are metaphors and not ourselves . . .

  Derek Walcott

  Shadow, Metaphor

  " White Egrets by Derek Walcott" by Sarah Crown, www.theguardian.com. March 26, 2010.

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• The poem is itself a mirror.

  Derek Walcott

  Mirrors

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• Any serious attempt to try to do something worthwhile is ritualistic.

  Derek Walcott

  Trying, Serious, Worthwhile

  Derek Walcott, William Baer (1996). “Conversations with Derek Walcott”, Univ Pr of Mississippi

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• Damn wind shift sudden as a woman mind.

  Derek Walcott

  Wind, Mind, Damn

  Derek Walcott (2014). “The Poetry of Derek Walcott 1948-2013”, p.249, Macmillan

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• In Eden who sleeps happiest? The serpent.

  Derek Walcott

  Sleep, Eden, Evil

  Derek Walcott (2014). “Sea Grapes”, p.20, Macmillan

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• The classics can console. But not enough.

  Derek Walcott

  Enough, Console

  Derek Walcott, William Baer (1996). “Conversations with Derek Walcott”, p.148, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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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 village.

  Derek Walcott

  Art, Church, Village

  Derek Walcott, “From 'Omeros'”

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• Memory that yearns to join the centre, a limb remembering the body from which it has been severed, like those bamboo thighs of the god.

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  Memories, Bamboo, Body

  Derek Walcott (2014). “What the Twilight Says: Essays”, p.67, Macmillan

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• I know when dark-haired evening put on her bright silk at sunset, and, folding the sea sidled under the sheet with her starry laugh, that there'd be no rest, there'd be no forgetting. Is like telling mourners round the graveside about resurrection, they want the dead back.

  Derek Walcott

  Sunset, Dark, Sea

  Derek Walcott (2014). “Selected Poems”, p.128, Macmillan

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• The voice does go up in a poem. It is an address, even if it is to oneself.

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  Voice, Addresses, Doe

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• Americans are not brought up with meter. They're not brought up with poetry. If you try to get them to recite, they're too embarrassed.

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  Trying, Meter, Embarrassed

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• Who cares about a kid from the Midwest writing pentameter? It's stupid.

  Derek Walcott

  Stupid, Writing, Kids

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• When poems are no good they don't make any sense.

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• You can't write drunk.

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  Writing, Drunk

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• She's a rare vase, out of a cat's reach, on its shelf.

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  Cat, Vases, Shelves

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• I too saw the wooden horse blocking the stars.

  Derek Walcott

  Horse, Stars, Block

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