Logo
Quote by Derek Walcott
The English language is nobodys special property. It is the proper

The English language is nobodys special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself. – Derek Walcott

Other quotes by 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

Category:
Beauty
Author
Derek Walcott
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Imagination
category

And, as I have said, its made me think twice about the imagination. If the spirits arent external, how astonishing the mediums become! Victor Hugo said of his voices that they were like his own mental powers multiplied by five. – James Merrill

Category:
Imagination

I like photographs which leave something to the imagination. – Fay Godwin

Category:
Imagination

To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination. – Lord Chesterfield

Category:
Imagination

Imagination is the air of mind. – Philip James Bailey

Category:
Imagination

Random Quotes

A universal feeling, whether well or ill founded, cannot be safely disregarded. – Abraham Lincoln

Category:
Public

If a man could have just half of his wishes, he would double his troubles. – Benjamin Franklin

Category:
Miscellaneous

Our fears are an amazing gift of the imagination… a way of glimpsing what might be the future when theres still time to influence how that future will play out. – Karen Thompson Walker

Category:
amazing

Mankind have banned the Divinity from their presence; they have relegated him to a sanctuary; the walls of the temple restrict his view; he does not exist outside of it. РDiderot, Pens̩es philosophiques, 1746

Category:
Religion