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Where I come from, we sing poetry.

~Derek Walcott

Topics: Come Poetry Sing Where

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The greatest writers have been, at heart, parochial, provincial in their rootedness.

~Derek Walcott

Topics: Been Greatest Heart Provincial Writers

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

~Derek Walcott

Topics: Any Attempt Serious Something Try Worthwhile

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We make too much of that long groan which underlines the past.

~Derek Walcott

Topics: Long Make Much Past Too Too Much Which

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This is Port of Spain to me, a city ideal in its commercial and human proportions, where a citizen is a walker and not a pedestrian, and this is how Athens may have been before it became a cultural echo.

~Derek Walcott

Topics: Athens Became Been Before Citizen City Commercial Cultural Echo How Human Ideal May Me Pedestrian Port Proportions Spain Walker Where

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Because that is what such a city is, in the New World, a writer's heaven.

~Derek Walcott

Topics: Because City Heaven New New World World Writer

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A culture, we all know, is made by its cities.

~Derek Walcott

Topics: Cities Culture Know Made

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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.

~Derek Walcott

Topics: Average Going Know Poem Write Writing You

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I think young writers ought to be heretical.

~Derek Walcott

Topics: Ought Think Writers Young Young Writers I Think

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My mother, who is nearly ninety now, still talks continually about my father. All my life, I've been aware of her grief about his absence and her strong pride in his conduct.

~Derek Walcott

Topics: About Absence All My Life Aware Been Conduct Continually Father Grief Her His Life Mother My Life Nearly Ninety Now Pride Still Strong Talks Who

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Biography

Nationality: Unknown

Type: Poet

Born: January 23rd, 1930

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