173 Quotes by Derek Walcott

I come from a place that likes grandeur; it likes large gestures; it is not inhibited by flourish; it is a rhetorical society; it is a society of physical performance; it is a society of style.

To change your language you must change your life.

Peel your own image from the mirror. Sit. Feast on your life.

… the truest writers are those who see language not as a linguistic process but as a living element…

The time will come when, with elation, you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror, and each will smile at the other’s welcome.

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

For every poet it is always morning in the world; history a forgotten, insomniac night. The fate of poetry is to fall in love with the world in spite of history.

Summer for prose and lemons, for nakedness and languor,

We knew there was a point when Kevin would come through and carry us.