Quote by Derek Walcott
I try to forget what happiness was, and when that dont work, I stu

I try to forget what happiness was, and when that dont work, I study the stars. – Derek Walcott

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

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Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty, the sigh of History dissolves. – Derek Walcott

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These earthly godfathers of Heavens lights, that give a name to every fixed star, have no more profit of their shining nights than those that walk and know not what they are. – William Shakespeare

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When I heard the learn – Walt Whitman

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Adam inquires concerning celestial motions, is doubtfully answered, and exhorted to search rather things more worthy of knowledge. – John Milton

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It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other. – Plato

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