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Derek Walcott Quotes

- Poet | January 23, 1930 -

My delight in things is definitely Caribbean. It has to do with landscape and food. The fact that my language may have a metrical direction is because that's the shape of the language. I didn't make that shape.

Food Direction Language Landscape

There are some things people avoid saying in interviews because they sound pompous or sentimental or too mystical.

People Saying Sound Sentimental Some

Individual writers have different postures, different stances, even different physical attitudes as they stand or sit over their blank paper, and in a sense, without doing it, they are crossing themselves; I mean, it's like the habit of Catholics going into water: you cross yourself before you go in.

Water Habit Yourself Stand Doing Go

Minor writers think style is all.

Style Think Minor Writers

When a child's mind develops and is heading in a certain direction, we murder that mentality, we murder that imagination, by saying, 'Now, that is all well and good, but now sit down and start to study.'

Good Imagination Child Mind Start

That's another pompous expression that is out of fashion, to say that poetry is a gift. It sounds pompous because you say, 'Who gave you the gift, and what is this gift?' And the gift is where I am; the gift is what I have come out of, the people around me who, I think, are beautiful people.

Beautiful I Am Poetry People Fashion

Ted Hughes is dead. That's a fact, OK. Then there's something called the poetry of Ted Hughes. The poetry of Ted Hughes is more real, very soon, than the myth that Ted Hughes existed - because that can't be proven.

Poetry Dead More Real Something

There is no one more deserving of a place in Poets' Corner. Ted Hughes introduced a new kind of landscape into English poetry. The most compelling aspect of his work was his intimacy with nature.

Work Nature Poetry Landscape Place

I think, at the heart of the idea of American democracy, there is something tender.

Heart Democracy Think American Idea

There's a ritualistic element to tragedy that everyone shares; there's something curiously glorious in terms of the most horrible kind of events that happen.

Tragedy Kind Events Everyone Happen

I have no curiosity. I'm an island boy.

Curiosity Island Boy

There's always a need at a critical time for poetry.

Time Poetry Need Always Critical

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