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Derek Walcott Quotes

Because that is what such a city is, in the New World, a writer's heaven.
Derek Walcott

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Date of Birth:
January 23, 1930
Nationality:
Trinidadian
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Select Derek Walcott Quotations:
A culture, we all know, is made by its cities.
Derek Walcott

The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.
Derek Walcott

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.
Derek Walcott

The sigh of History rises over ruins, not over landscapes, and in the Antilles there are few ruins to sigh over, apart from the ruins of sugar estates and abandoned forts.
Derek Walcott

This is Port of Spain to me, a city ideal in its commercial and human proportions, where a citizen is a walker and not a pedestrian, and this is how Athens may have been before it became a cultural echo.
Derek Walcott

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.
Derek Walcott


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Because, City, Heaven, New, Such, World, Writer
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Any serious attempt to try to...
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Break a vase, and the love...
If you know what you are...
Memory that yearns to join the...
The English language is nobody's special...
The personal vocabulary, the individual melody whose...
The sigh of History rises over...
This is Port of Spain to...
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