Derek Walcott Quotes

• Adios, Carenage line 40-44 (The Schooner 'Flight' (1980))
• After the Storm (The Schooner 'Flight' (1980))
• 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.
• Any serious attempt to try to do something worthwhile is ritualistic.
• 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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