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....

As human beings we’ve certainly suffered the loss of awe, the loss of sacredness, and the loss of the....

I too saw the wooden horse blocking the stars.

Who with the Devil tries to play fair,weaves the net of his own despair.Oh, smile; what’s a house between....

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

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....