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.

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

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

We make too much of that long groan which underlines the past.

Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole.