1930-, Poet and Playwright, born in West Indies
Any serious attempt to try to do something worthwhile is ritualistic.
Derek Walcott – [Ritual]
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 – [Quarrels]
I try to forget what happiness was, and when that don't work, I study the stars.
Derek Walcott – [Astronomy]
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 – [Language]