173 Quotes by Derek Walcott

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

I'm read in the Caribbean with justice, with fairness. What I expect it to do is to encourage articulacy in the young.

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

My mother taught Shakespeare and used to act.

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.

Creating a poem is a continual process of re-creating your ignorance, in the sense of not knowing what's coming next.

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.

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.'

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.