“The sigh of History rises over ruins, not over landscapes, and in the Antilles there are few ruins to sigh over, apart from the ruins of sugar estates and abandoned forts.Quote by Derek WalcottTopics: Quotes about Derek WalcottShare on:FacebookPinterestWhatsApp
The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it...#Derek Walcott
Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love...#Derek Walcott
The personal vocabulary, the individual melody whose metre is one's biography, joins in that sound,...#Derek Walcott
Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean; it comes with the landscape, and faced with...#Derek Walcott
