The English language is nobodys special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself. – Derek Walcott
I try to forget what happiness was, and when that dont work, I study the stars. – 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
Any serious attempt to try to do something worthwhile is ritualistic. – Derek Walcott
Novelists are not equipped to make a movie, in my opinion. They make their own movie when they write: theyre casting, theyre dressing the scene, theyre working out where the energy of the scene is coming from and theyre also relying tremendously on the creative imagination of the reader. – John le Carre