Derek Walcott

Any serious attempt to try to do something worthwhile is ritualistic.

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.

Money grants you freedom, I guess.

It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.

Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come to being.