Quotes by : Derek Walcott

What are men? Children who doubt.

Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean; it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty,....

Let them run ahead. Then I’ll have good reason for shooting them down. Sharpeville? Attempting to escape.....

In the Village IIIWho has removed the typewriter from my desk,so that I am a musician without his pianowith....

I too saw the wooden horse blocking the stars.

The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property....

Who is the man who can speak to the strong?Where is the fool who can talk to the wise?Men who are dead....

The future happens. No matter how much we scream.

But drunkenly, or secretly, we swore,Disciples of that astigmatic saint,That we would never leave the....

Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry....