Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean; it comes with the landscape, and faced with...#Derek Walcott
The sigh of History rises over ruins, not over landscapes, and in the Antilles there...#Derek Walcott
The personal vocabulary, the individual melody whose metre is one's biography, joins in that sound,...#Derek Walcott
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