Derek Walcott

The personal vocabulary, the individual melody whose metre is one's biography, joins in that sound, with any luck, and the body moves like a walking, a waking island.

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These are some quotes by No-nationality author Derek Walcott Poet, who was born on January 23, 1930.

Quotes by Derek Walcott

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

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If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.

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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.

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