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Derek Walcott Quotes

- Poet | January 23, 1930 -

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

Culture Know Made Cities

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

Serious Try Something Worthwhile Any

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

City World Heaven New Because

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

Writing You Know Write Going Poem

I think young writers ought to be heretical.

Think Young I Think Ought Writers

My mother, who is nearly ninety now, still talks continually about my father. All my life, I've been aware of her grief about his absence and her strong pride in his conduct.

Life Father Mother Grief Strong Now

A fisherman, say, working on a beach doing his job, may be photographed by a tourist because it's photogenic to see him working, and the Caribbean is extremely photogenic, so poverty is photogenic, and a lot of people are photographed in their poverty, and sometimes it's kind of exploited.

Beach Job People Doing Poverty Kind

I don't think poetry has a readership anywhere, really, that's that big.

Poetry Think Big Anywhere Really

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.

Good Dedication Think Friends Trying

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.

Think Exercise Teach Imitation Poet

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.

I Am Theatre Black America Place Go

I knew very early what I wanted to do, and I considered myself lucky to know that's what I wanted, even in a place like Saint Lucia where there was no publishing house and no theatre.

Myself Theatre Early House Place

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