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5 Derek Walcott Quotes

Derek Walcott shares grand, lyrical thoughts on action and language that feel both bold and artistic.

Derek Walcott quotes

  1. Adios, Carenage line 40-44 (The Schooner 'Flight' (1980))

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  2. After the Storm (The Schooner 'Flight' (1980))

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  3. 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.

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

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  5. The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.

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