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

Quote by Derek Walcott

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

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

Memory that yearns to join the centre, a limb remembering the body from which it...

Memory that yearns to join the centre, a limb remembering the body from which it...

If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's...

If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's...

Because that is what such a city is, in the New World, a writer's heaven.

Because that is what such a city is, in the New World, a writer's heaven.

This is Port of Spain to me, a city ideal in its commercial and human...

This is Port of Spain to me, a city ideal in its commercial and human...

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

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

Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love...

Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love...

A culture, we all know, is made by its cities.

A culture, we all know, is made by its cities.

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

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

The sigh of History rises over ruins, not over landscapes, and in the Antilles there...

The sigh of History rises over ruins, not over landscapes, and in the Antilles there...

The personal vocabulary, the individual melody whose metre is one's biography, joins in that sound,...

The personal vocabulary, the individual melody whose metre is one's biography, joins in that sound,...

If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's...

If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's...

Why am I compelled to write?... Because the world I create in the writing compensates...

Why am I compelled to write?... Because the world I create in the writing compensates...

People say I give the best head, and they're not always talking about sex.

People say I give the best head, and they're not always talking about sex.

The pen is a formidable weapon, but a man can kill himself with it a...

The pen is a formidable weapon, but a man can kill himself with it a...

Write injuries in sand, kindnesses in marble

Write injuries in sand, kindnesses in marble

What a writer brings to any story is an attitude

What a writer brings to any story is an attitude

Writing is the only trade I know of in which sniveling confessions of extreme incompetence...

Writing is the only trade I know of in which sniveling confessions of extreme incompetence...

The writer's duty is to keep on writing

The writer's duty is to keep on writing

Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is...

Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is...