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
Any serious attempt to try to do something worthwhile is ritualistic. – Derek Walcott
I try to forget what happiness was, and when that dont work, I study the stars. – Derek Walcott
We make a mistake forsaking England and moving out into the periphery of life. After all, Taormina, Ceylon, Africa, America — as far as we go, they are only the negation of what we ourselves stand for and are: and were rather like Jonahs running away from the place we belong. – D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence