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The fate of poetry is to fall in love with the world.

~Derek Walcott

Topics: Fall Fate Love Poetry World

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For so long, the world has viewed West Indian culture as semiliterate and backward, which it is not. In my work, I have tried to give that world an exposure so the world can better understand it.

~Derek Walcott

Topics: Backward Better Culture Exposure Give Indian Indian Culture Long Tried Understand Viewed West Which Work World

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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.

~Derek Walcott

Topics: Break Fragments Granted Love Stronger Symmetry Than Took Vase Which Whole

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The sigh of History rises over ruins, not over landscapes, and in the Antilles there are few ruins to sigh over, apart from the ruins of sugar estates and abandoned forts.

~Derek Walcott

Topics: Abandoned Apart Estates Few History Landscapes Over Rises Ruins Sigh Sugar

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Sometimes what we call tragedy, at least in the theater, are really case histories. They're based on the central figure, and things happen to that person, and they're called tragedy because they're extremely sad. But tragedy always has a glorious thing happen at the end of it. That's what the catharsis is.

~Derek Walcott

Topics: Always Based Because Call Case Catharsis Central End Extremely Figure Glorious Happen Histories Least Person Really Sad Sometimes Theater Thing Things Things Happen Tragedy

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You would get some fantastic syntactical phenomena. You would hear people talking in Barbados in the exact melody as a minor character in Shakespeare. Because here you have a thing that was not immured and preserved and mummified, but a voluble language, very active, very swift, very sharp.

~Derek Walcott

Topics: Active Barbados Because Character Exact Fantastic Get Hear Hear People Here Language Melody Minor People Phenomena Preserved Shakespeare Sharp Some Swift Talking Thing Very Would You

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A noun is not a name you give something. It is something you watch becoming itself, and you have to have the patience to find out what it is.

~Derek Walcott

Topics: Becoming Find Give Itself Name Noun Out Patience Something Watch You

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Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean; it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty, the sigh of History dissolves.

~Derek Walcott

Topics: Beauty Caribbean Faced History Landscape Natural Sigh Surprise Visual

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I have never separated the writing of poetry from prayer. I have grown up believing it is a vocation, a religious vocation.

~Derek Walcott

Topics: Believing Grown Never Poetry Prayer Religious Separated Up Vocation Writing

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I am grateful, you know. I have to be grateful in the sense that I feel that what I have is a gift.

~Derek Walcott

Topics: Am Be Grateful Feel Gift Grateful Know Sense You I Am I Feel

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Biography

Nationality: Unknown

Type: Poet

Born: January 23rd, 1930

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