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My body's urge is to be in a pair of shorts, working and going down to the beach.

~Derek Walcott

Topics: Beach Body Down Going Pair Shorts Urge Working

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Like any art, what is the most imprisoning thing is also the most delivering thing. If an actor knows he only has 12 syllables in a line, the challenge is, 'How can I interpret the meaning and contain it without going one syllable over?'

~Derek Walcott

Topics: Actor Also Any Art Challenge Contain Delivering Going He How Interpret Knows Like Line Meaning Most Only Over Syllable Syllables Thing Without

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Our artists and writers should not be forced like soldiers to die on foreign soil or to return wounded and crawl famously into a hole.

~Derek Walcott

Topics: Artists Crawl Die Forced Foreign Hole Like Our Return Should Soil Soldiers Wounded Writers

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I'd rather have just one person who reads and feels my work deeply than hundreds of thousands who read it but don't really care about.

~Derek Walcott

Topics: About Care Deeply Feels Hundreds Hundreds Of Thousands Just Just One Person Rather Read Reads Really Than Thousands Who Work

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Anybody great, we're all interested in the relics. If you found an unfinished Gauguin, you'd still want to see it.

~Derek Walcott

Topics: Anybody Found Great Interested Relic See Still Unfinished Want You

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I am primarily, absolutely a Caribbean writer.

~Derek Walcott

Topics: Absolutely Am Caribbean Primarily Writer I Am

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I have never felt inhibited in trying to write as well as the greatest English poets.

~Derek Walcott

Topics: English Felt Greatest Never Poets Trying Well Write

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If you talk about language in the Caribbean, you must relate it to history.

~Derek Walcott

Topics: About Caribbean History Language Must Relate Talk You

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My mother was a schoolteacher and very, very encouraging. She understood what it meant when I said I wanted to be a writer; both me and my brother wrote.

~Derek Walcott

Topics: Both Brother Encouraging Me Meant Mother Said She Understood Very Wanted Writer Wrote

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I am not in England; I live in the Caribbean. So I am not hungover by prizes and awards because it does not happen very often.

~Derek Walcott

Topics: Am Awards Because Caribbean Does England Happen Live Often Prizes Very I Am

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Biography

Nationality: Unknown

Type: Poet

Born: January 23rd, 1930

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