Any serious attempt to try to do something worthwhile is ritualistic. – Derek Walcott
The English language is nobodys special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself. – 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
Proverbs are in the world of thought what gold coin is in the world of business—great value in small compass, and equally current among all people. Sometimes the proverb may be false, the coin counterfeit, but in both cases the false proves the value of the true. – Attributed to D. March in A Dictionary of Thoughts: A Cyclopedia of Laconic Quot