The English language is nobodys special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself. – Derek Walcott
Any serious attempt to try to do something worthwhile is ritualistic. – Derek Walcott
Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty, the sigh of History dissolves. – Derek Walcott
I try to forget what happiness was, and when that dont work, I study the stars. – Derek Walcott
Topographically the country is magnificent — and terrifying. Why terrifying? Because nowhere else in the world is the divorce between man and nature so complete. Nowhere have I encountered such a dull, monotonous fabric of life as here in America. Here boredom reaches its peak. – Henry Miller