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  • Love After Love all your life, whom you have ignored for another, who knows you by heart. Take down the love letters from the bookshelf, the photographs, the desperate notes, peel your own image from the mirror. Sit. Feast on your life.

    Heart   Mirrors   Letters  
    Derek Walcott (2014). “The Poetry of Derek Walcott 1948-2013”, p.227, Macmillan
  • The sigh of History rises over ruins, not over landscapes, and in the Antilles there are few ruins to sigh over, apart from the ruins of sugar estates and abandoned forts.

    Landscape   Sugar   Ruins  
    Derek Walcott (2014). “What the Twilight Says: Essays”, p.68, Macmillan
  • Art is History's nostalgia, it prefers a thatched roof to a concrete factory, and the huge church above a bleached village.

    Art   Church   Village  
    Derek Walcott, “From 'Omeros'”
  • I too saw the wooden horse blocking the stars.

    Horse   Stars   Block  
  • In Eden who sleeps happiest? The serpent.

    Sleep   Eden   Evil  
    Derek Walcott (2014). “Sea Grapes”, p.20, Macmillan
  • What are men? Children who doubt.

    Children   Men   Doubt  
  • Americans are not brought up with meter. They're not brought up with poetry. If you try to get them to recite, they're too embarrassed.

    Source: www.raintaxi.com
  • The future happens. No matter how much we scream.

    Matter   Scream   Happens  
  • The truest writers are those who see language not as a linguistic process but as a living element.

    Derek Walcott (2014). “What the Twilight Says: Essays”, p.62, Macmillan
  • The voice does go up in a poem. It is an address, even if it is to oneself.

    Voice   Addresses   Doe  
  • When poems are no good they don't make any sense.

    Source: www.raintaxi.com
  • The classics can console. But not enough.

    Enough   Console  
    Derek Walcott, William Baer (1996). “Conversations with Derek Walcott”, p.148, Univ. Press of Mississippi
  • To change your language you must change your life.

    Derek Walcott (2014). “The Poetry of Derek Walcott 1948-2013”, p.83, Macmillan
  • How can I turn from Africa and live?

    Turns  
    Derek Walcott (2014). “Selected Poems”, p.6, Macmillan
  • We read, we travel, we become.

    Derek Walcott (2014). “The Prodigal: A Poem”, p.31, Macmillan
  • The word and the shadow of the word / makes a thing both itself and something else / till we are metaphors and not ourselves . . .

    " White Egrets by Derek Walcott" by Sarah Crown, www.theguardian.com. March 26, 2010.
  • 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.

    Derek Walcott (2014). “The Poetry of Derek Walcott 1948-2013”, p.227, Macmillan
  • Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean; it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty, the sigh of History dissolves.

    Derek Walcott (2014). “What the Twilight Says: Essays”, p.68, Macmillan
  • If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.

  • The truth is that the poems are ecstatic.

    Source: www.raintaxi.com
  • I have never separated the writing of poetry from prayer. I have grown up believing it is a vocation, a religious vocation.

    Derek Walcott, William Baer (1996). “Conversations with Derek Walcott”, p.99, Univ. Press of Mississippi
  • All of Victorian verse is pentameter.

    Source: www.raintaxi.com
  • Summer for prose and lemons, for nakedness and languor.

    Summer   Prose   Lemons  
    Derek Walcott (1969). “In a green night: poems, 1948-1960”, Jonathan Cape
  • Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole.

    Derek Walcott (2014). “What the Twilight Says: Essays”, p.69, Macmillan
  • Good science and good art are always about a condition of awe. I don't think there is any other function for the poet or the scientist in the human tribe but the astonishment of the soul.

    Art   Thinking   Soul  
    "Uncommon Genius: How Great Ideas are Born". Book by Denise G. Shekerjian, 1990.
  • Who cares about a kid from the Midwest writing pentameter? It's stupid.

    Stupid   Writing   Kids  
    Source: www.raintaxi.com
  • We look and see what we see in a mirror, and we believe it. That's important, the question of belief. The question is: Should we believe what we see in a mirror?

    Source: www.raintaxi.com
  • Slowly my body grows a single sound, slowly I become a bell, an oval, disembodied vowel, I grow, an owl, an aureole, white fire poesia "Metamorfosi, I. Luna

    Fire   White   Owl  
  • The mirror is believed the way a poem is believed. It's believed because it's there.

    Mirrors   Way  
    Source: www.raintaxi.com
  • A culture, we all know, is made by its cities.

    Cities   Culture   Made  
    Derek Walcott (2014). “What the Twilight Says: Essays”, p.71, Macmillan
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