Latest Derek Walcott Quotes from Interviews

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• When you get a class reciting some great poems, it'll tear your heart out.

  Derek Walcott

  Heart, Class, Tears

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

• 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.

  Derek Walcott

  Trying, Meter, Embarrassed

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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

  Derek Walcott

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

• The truth is that the poems are ecstatic.

  Derek Walcott

  Truth Is, Ecstatic

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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

  Derek Walcott

  Stupid, Writing, Kids

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

• All of Victorian verse is pentameter.

  Derek Walcott

  Victorian, Verses

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

• The first thing we have to do is get rid of the pentameter. To ditch the pentameter.

  Derek Walcott

  Firsts

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

• There's always more to see.

  Derek Walcott

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

• I look in the mirror. There's me. What's in the mirror is not real. So am I unreal?

  Derek Walcott

  Real, Mirrors, Looks

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

• The thing that is believed is a reality.

  Derek Walcott

  Reality

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

• 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?

  Derek Walcott

  Believe, Mirrors, Important

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

• The mirror is believed the way a poem is believed. It's believed because it's there.

  Derek Walcott

  Mirrors, Way

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

• The poem is itself a mirror.

  Derek Walcott

  Mirrors

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

• You can't write drunk.

  Derek Walcott

  Writing, Drunk

  Source: www.raintaxi.com