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After a while, when the writer is mature, it doesn't really matter - not because of finances but because of reputation. It doesn't really matter how many awards you get.

~Derek Walcott

Topics: After Awards Because Finances Get How Many Matter Mature Really Reputation While Writer You

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I don't want to write poems about the royal wedding. I would have to be moved by the event.

~Derek Walcott

Topics: About Event Moved Poems Royal Want Wedding Would Write

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My relationship to Britain is of no consequence.

~Derek Walcott

Topics: Britain Consequence Relationship

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I don't think there is any such thing as a black writer or a white writer. Ultimately, there is someone whom one reads.

~Derek Walcott

Topics: Any Black Reads Someone Thing Think Ultimately White Whom Writer

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I consider the sound of the sea to be part of my body.

~Derek Walcott

Topics: Body Consider Part Sea Sound

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The myth of Naipaul... has long been a farce.

~Derek Walcott

Topics: Been Farce Long Myth

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I think I would have been a totally different kind of writer if I'd gone to England. I might have developed a cynicism about my origins, a belittling of them, or an excessive nostalgia for them.

~Derek Walcott

Topics: About Been Cynicism Developed Different Different Kind England Excessive Gone Kind Might Nostalgia Origins Them Think Totally Would Writer I Think

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I don't feel I've arrived home until I get on the beach. All my life, the theater of the sea has been a very strong thing.

~Derek Walcott

Topics: All My Life Arrived Beach Been Feel Get Home Life My Life Sea Strong Theater Thing Until Very

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The older I get, the more aware I am of the banality and indifference of a place like Trinidad to any development of the arts.

~Derek Walcott

Topics: Am Any Arts Aware Development Get Indifference Like More Older Place I Am

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There is a restless identity in the New World. The New World needs an identity without guilt or blame.

~Derek Walcott

Topics: Blame Guilt Identity Needs New New World Restless Without World

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Biography

Nationality: Unknown

Type: Poet

Born: January 23rd, 1930

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