Walcott, Derek quotes
1930 Poet and Playwright born in West IndiesThe English language is nobody s special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.
Walcott, Derek
Language
Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole.
Walcott, Derek
Quarrels
Any serious attempt to try to do something worthwhile is ritualistic.
Walcott, Derek
Ritual
I try to forget what happiness was, and when that don t work, I study the stars.
Walcott, Derek
Astronomy