Phrase by 'Derek Walcott'
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I consider the sound of the sea to be part of my body.
Author: Derek Walcott - PoetPart , Body , Sea , Sound
There is a force of exultation, a celebration of luck, when a writer finds himself a witness to the early morning of a culture that is defining itself, branch by branch, leaf by leaf, in that self-defining dawn, which is why, especially at the edge of the sea, it is good to make a ritual of the sunrise.
Author: Derek Walcott - PoetGood , Culture , Morning , Sea
All of the Antilles, every island, is an effort of memory: every mind, every racial biography culminating in amnesia and fog. Pieces of sunlight through the fog and sudden rainbows, arcs-en-ciel. That is the effort, the labour of the Antillean imagination, rebuilding its gods from bamboo frames, phrase by phrase.
Author: Derek Walcott - PoetEffort , Mind , Memory , Imagination
The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.
Author: Derek Walcott - PoetNobody , Special , Language , Imagination
Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean; it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty, the sigh of History dissolves.
Author: Derek Walcott - PoetHistory , Beauty , Surprise , Landscape
I am not defined as a black writer in the Caribbean, but as soon as I go to America or the U.K., my place becomes black theatre. It's a little ridiculous.
Author: Derek Walcott - PoetBlack , I Am , America , Place
How does a poet teach himself or herself? I think chiefly by imitation, chiefly by practising it as a deliberate technical exercise often. Translation, imitation, those were my methods anyway.
Author: Derek Walcott - PoetThink , How , Exercise , Teach
My dedication to trying to be a poet started very, very young, and I was very well encouraged by good teachers and by older friends and so on, so I think it is a benediction, and I also think it is a calling, a duty.
Author: Derek Walcott - PoetFriends , Good , Teachers , Dedication
For so long, the world has viewed West Indian culture as semiliterate and backward, which it is not. In my work, I have tried to give that world an exposure so the world can better understand it.
Author: Derek Walcott - PoetWork , World , Long , Culture
What was moving, I think, was the fact that the statue is a woman and not a heroic, manly figure. So for all her scale and immensity, there's something soft about the Statue of Liberty, something tender about her.
Author: Derek Walcott - PoetThink , Woman , Moving , Liberty
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