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.

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.

Money grants you freedom, I guess.

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