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There are some things people avoid saying in interviews because they sound pompous or sentimental or too mystical.

~Derek Walcott

Topics: Avoid Because Interviews Mystical People Pompous Saying Sentimental Some Some Things Sound Things Too

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Individual writers have different postures, different stances, even different physical attitudes as they stand or sit over their blank paper, and in a sense, without doing it, they are crossing themselves; I mean, it's like the habit of Catholics going into water: you cross yourself before you go in.

~Derek Walcott

Topics: Attitudes Before Blank Catholics Cross Crossing Different Doing Even Go Going Habit Individual Like Mean Over Paper Physical Sense Sit Stand Themselves Water Without Writers You Yourself

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Minor writers think style is all.

~Derek Walcott

Topics: Minor Style Think Writers

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When a child's mind develops and is heading in a certain direction, we murder that mentality, we murder that imagination, by saying, 'Now, that is all well and good, but now sit down and start to study.'

~Derek Walcott

Topics: Certain Child Develops Direction Down Good Heading Imagination Mentality Mind Now Saying Sit Start Study Well

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Ted Hughes is dead. That's a fact, OK. Then there's something called the poetry of Ted Hughes. The poetry of Ted Hughes is more real, very soon, than the myth that Ted Hughes existed - because that can't be proven.

~Derek Walcott

Topics: Because Dead Existed Fact Hughes More Myth Ok Poetry Proven Real Something Soon Ted Than Then Very

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I am only one-eighth the writer I might have been had I contained all the fragmented languages of Trinidad.

~Derek Walcott

Topics: Am Been Contained Fragmented Had Languages Might Only Writer I Am

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There is no one more deserving of a place in Poets' Corner. Ted Hughes introduced a new kind of landscape into English poetry. The most compelling aspect of his work was his intimacy with nature.

~Derek Walcott

Topics: Aspect Compelling Corner Deserving English His Hughes Intimacy Introduced Kind Landscape More Most Nature New New Kind Place Poetry Poets Ted Work

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I think, at the heart of the idea of American democracy, there is something tender.

~Derek Walcott

Topics: American Democracy Heart Idea Something Tender Think I Think

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There's a ritualistic element to tragedy that everyone shares; there's something curiously glorious in terms of the most horrible kind of events that happen.

~Derek Walcott

Topics: Curiously Element Events Everyone Glorious Happen Horrible Kind Most Shares Something Terms Tragedy

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I have no curiosity. I'm an island boy.

~Derek Walcott

Topics: Boy Curiosity Island

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Biography

Nationality: Unknown

Type: Poet

Born: January 23rd, 1930

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