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Letter "D" » Derek Walcott Quotes
«If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average»
«The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.»
«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.»
Author: Derek Walcott
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«I come from a place that likes grandeur; it likes large gestures; it is not inhibited by flourish; it is a rhetorical society; it is a society of physical performance; it is a society of style.»
Author: Derek Walcott
«Any serious attempt to try to do something worthwhile is ritualistic.»
«This image of us as being art supportive and very cultured is false, ... The money that we have now that is keeping this place going has come from Canada-the University of Toronto. When you come across sponsors like these gentlemen we have today, what it does for the individual artist is enormous. It means that we can feel that there is some direction to our lives.»
Author: Derek Walcott
«I have always been fascinated by the musical talent, the calypso, the carnival and the sweet sound of pan, ... Trinidad was the best place to host the world premier and to display the vast local talent.»
Author: Derek Walcott
«He's just dominant. He knows how to play.»
Author: Derek Walcott
«We knew there was a point when Kevin would come through and carry us.»
Author: Derek Walcott
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