Quotes by Derek Walcott

Derek Walcott

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

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Culture

Made

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

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Trying

Worthwhile

Art is History’s nostalgia, it prefers a thatched roof to a concrete factory, and the huge church above a bleached village.

Art

Church

Village

Damn wind shift sudden as a woman mind.

Damn

Mind

Wind

Good science and good art are always about a condition of awe. I don’t think there is any other function for the poet or the scientist in the human tribe but the astonishment of the soul.

Art

Soul

Thinking

How can I turn from Africa and live?

Turns

I come from a place that likes grandeur; it likes large gestures; it is not inhibited by flourish; it is a rhetorical society; it is a society of physical performance; it is a society of style.

Gestures

Likes

Style

I have never separated the writing of poetry from prayer. I have grown up believing it is a vocation, a religious vocation.

Believe

Prayer

Religious

I know when dark-haired evening put on her bright silk at sunset, and, folding the sea sidled under the sheet with her starry laugh, that there’d be no rest, there’d be no forgetting. Is like telling mourners round the graveside about resurrection, they want the dead back.

Dark

Sea

Sunset

I look in the mirror. There’s me. What’s in the mirror is not real. So am I unreal?

Looks

Mirrors

Real

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Quotes by Derek Walcott

Derek Walcott

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

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

Art is History’s nostalgia, it prefers a thatched roof to a concrete factory, and the huge church above a bleached village.

Damn wind shift sudden as a woman mind.

Good science and good art are always about a condition of awe. I don’t think there is any other function for the poet or the scientist in the human tribe but the astonishment of the soul.

How can I turn from Africa and live?

I come from a place that likes grandeur; it likes large gestures; it is not inhibited by flourish; it is a rhetorical society; it is a society of physical performance; it is a society of style.

I have never separated the writing of poetry from prayer. I have grown up believing it is a vocation, a religious vocation.

I know when dark-haired evening put on her bright silk at sunset, and, folding the sea sidled under the sheet with her starry laugh, that there’d be no rest, there’d be no forgetting. Is like telling mourners round the graveside about resurrection, they want the dead back.

I look in the mirror. There’s me. What’s in the mirror is not real. So am I unreal?

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