Quote by Derek Walcott
Any serious attempt to try to do something worthwhile is ritualist

Any serious attempt to try to do something worthwhile is ritualistic. – 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
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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

Category:
Imagination
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Other Quotes from
Ritual, Ceremony
category

Ceremony was but devised at first to set a gloss on faint deeds, hollow welcomes, recanting goodness, sorry ere Tis shown; but where there is true friendship, there needs none. – William Shakespeare

Ceremony and ritual spring from our heart of hearts: those who govern us know it well, for they would sooner deny us bread than dare alter the observance of tradition. – F. Gonzalez-Crussi

We must learn which ceremonies may be breached occasionally at our convenience and which ones may never be if we are to live pleasantly with our fellow man. – Amy Vanderbilt

It is superstitious to put ones hopes in formalities, but arrogant to refuse to submit to them. – Blaise Pascal

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What has been will be again. What has been done will be done again… Ecclesiastes 1:9 – Bible

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Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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Oh that wisdom was half as zealous for converts as ridicule. – Franz Grillparzer

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Quarrels often arise in marriages when the bridal gifts are excessive. – Antisthenes

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