Derek Walcott
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Derek Alton Walcott (born January 23, 1930) is a West Indian poet, playwright, writer and visual artist who writes mainly in English. Born in Castries, St. Lucia, he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1992.
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.
- Interview with Ed Hirsch (1986), Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, Eighth Series (Penguin, 1988)
- Any serious attempt to try to do something worthwhile is ritualistic.
- Interview with Ed Hirsch (1986), Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, Eighth Series (Penguin, 1988)
- The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.
- Interview with Ed Hirsch (1986), Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, Eighth Series (Penguin, 1988)
[edit] "The Schooner Flight" (1980)
- I'm just a red nigger who love the sea,
I had a sound colonial education,
I have Dutch, nigger, and English in me,
and either I'm nobody, or I'm a nation.- "Adios, Carenage," lines 40-44
- I try to forget what happiness was,
and when that don't work, I study the stars.- "After the Storm"
[edit] Collected Poems, 1948-1984 (1986)
- You will love again the stranger who was your self.
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart
to itself, to the stranger who has loved youall your life, whom you ignored
for another, who knows you by heart.- "Love after Love"
- Peel your own image from the mirror.
Sit. Feast on your life.- "Love after Love"
