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I always have difficulty with the Greek tragic plays. I think the difficulty one has - which is a serious problem - is the question of belief. Do you believe in the myth that the play expresses? Do you believe in it as myth or as reality? With any play, you have to believe in it as reality. You can't act a myth.

~Derek Walcott

Topics: Act Always Any Belief Believe Difficulty Expresses Greek Myth Play Plays Problem Question Reality Serious Think Tragic Which You I Think

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My generation produced some terrific writers from all over, and the great thing about it is that they were all mixed in race.

~Derek Walcott

Topics: About Generation Great Great Thing Mixed My Generation Over Produced Race Some Terrific Thing Were Writers

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Modesty is not possible in performance in the Caribbean - and that's wonderful.

~Derek Walcott

Topics: Caribbean Modesty Performance Possible Wonderful

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What I described in 'Another Life' - about being on the hill and feeling the sort of dissolution that happened - is a frequent experience in a younger writer.

~Derek Walcott

Topics: About Another Being Dissolution Experience Feeling Frequent Happened Hill Life Sort Writer Younger

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I have to live, socially, in an almost unfinished society. Among the almost great, among the almost true, among the almost honest. That allows me to describe the anguish.

~Derek Walcott

Topics: Almost Among Anguish Describe Great Honest Live Me Socially Society True Unfinished

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What makes a poem is the discipline inherent in making a poem: trying to fit feelings in the requisite number of syllables and lines, disciplining one's feelings.

~Derek Walcott

Topics: Discipline Feelings Fit Inherent Lines Makes Making Number Poem Requisite Syllables Trying

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If music goes out of language, then you are in bad trouble.

~Derek Walcott

Topics: Bad Goes Language Music Out Then Trouble You

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When you're young, influences count.

~Derek Walcott

Topics: Count Influences You Young

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I don't feel like a celebrity. Poetry justifies celebrity. It's good to have respect for a poet.

~Derek Walcott

Topics: Celebrity Feel Good Justifies Like Poet Poetry Respect

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As much as I like teaching and students, it's a kind of rigor, a discipline, that's against my body.

~Derek Walcott

Topics: Against Body Discipline Kind Like Much Rigor Students Teaching

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Biography

Nationality: Unknown

Type: Poet

Born: January 23rd, 1930

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