Derek Walcott Quotes

Who with the Devil tries to play fair,weaves the net of his own despair.Oh, smile; what’s a house be...

What are men? Children who doubt.

I too saw the wooden horse blocking the stars.

The future happens. No matter how much we scream.

As human beings we’ve certainly suffered the loss of awe, the loss of sacredness, and the loss of th...

Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean; it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty,...

In the Village IIIWho has removed the typewriter from my desk,so that I am a musician without his pi...

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

Who is the man who can speak to the strong?Where is the fool who can talk to the wise?Men who are de...

Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its ...

But drunkenly, or secretly, we swore,Disciples of that astigmatic saint,That we would never leave th...

Let them run ahead. Then I’ll have good reason for shooting them down. Sharpeville? Attempting to es...