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Derek Walcott Quotes

- Poet | January 23, 1930 -

What makes a poem is the discipline inherent in making a poem: trying to fit feelings in the requisite number of syllables and lines, disciplining one's feelings.

Discipline Trying Feelings Poem Fit

If music goes out of language, then you are in bad trouble.

Music Language You Bad Trouble Out

When you're young, influences count.

You Young Count Influences

I'm read in the Caribbean with justice, with fairness. What I expect it to do is to encourage articulacy in the young.

Justice Fairness Young Expect Read

I don't feel like a celebrity. Poetry justifies celebrity. It's good to have respect for a poet.

Good Respect Poetry Feel Celebrity

As much as I like teaching and students, it's a kind of rigor, a discipline, that's against my body.

Discipline Body Kind Against Like

My body's urge is to be in a pair of shorts, working and going down to the beach.

Beach Body Down Going Working Pair

Like any art, what is the most imprisoning thing is also the most delivering thing. If an actor knows he only has 12 syllables in a line, the challenge is, 'How can I interpret the meaning and contain it without going one syllable over?'

Art Challenge Meaning Actor Line

Our artists and writers should not be forced like soldiers to die on foreign soil or to return wounded and crawl famously into a hole.

Die Soil Soldiers Return Artists

I'd rather have just one person who reads and feels my work deeply than hundreds of thousands who read it but don't really care about.

Work Care Person Just One Just Who

Anybody great, we're all interested in the relics. If you found an unfinished Gauguin, you'd still want to see it.

Great You Want See Still Interested

I have never felt inhibited in trying to write as well as the greatest English poets.

Trying Never Write Greatest English

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