Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty, the sigh of History dissolves. – 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
I try to forget what happiness was, and when that dont work, I study the stars. – Derek Walcott
Any serious attempt to try to do something worthwhile is ritualistic. – Derek Walcott
Throughout the centuries, man has considered himself beautiful. I rather suppose that man only believes in his own beauty out of pride that he is not really beautiful and he suspects this himself for why does he look on the face of his fellow-man with such scorn? – Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events that have produced them. Thus the American Revolution, from which little was expected, produced much; but the French Revolution, from which much was expected, produced little. – Charles Caleb Colton