Derek Walcott Quotes

You would get some fantastic syntactical phenomena. You would hear people talking in Barbados in the exact melody as a minor character in Shakespeare. Because here you have a thing that was not immured and preserved and mummified, but a voluble language, very active, very swift, very sharp.

Derek Walcott

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
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  • Birth: January 23, 1930

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When I'm working on comics, I have to give myself a million deadlines, or I'd never get anything done. Comics are just so hard to make - I find it very difficult to motivate myself.

Jessica Abel

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Whenever you look at light, basically it's just air. It has no tactileness to it. It's totally without density.

Robert Irwin

LightYouLookAirWithoutJust

I dreamed of a future as a muscular, tanned, kibbutznik, who plowed the fertile fields of the Jezreel Valley in the day, sang religiously in the dining hall in the evening, and fiercely guarded the farmland at night, riding a noble horse.

Shimon Peres

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If you had an essentially happy childhood, that tends to dwell with you.

Tracy Kidder

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The moment eternal - just that and no more - When ecstasy's utmost we clutch at the core While cheeks burn, arms open, eyes shut, and lips meet!

Robert Browning

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I've given many lessons in many sports over the years to many different people.

Martina Navratilova

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I believe one can gauge a book's impact only after about 10 years.

Mohsin Hamid

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You turned on the radio and heard all kinds of things.

Luc Ferrari

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I'd got to that age when I was out on a date with a guy and I would be thinking: Don't mention your age, don't mention that you want a child - because they would just run out the door.

Denise Van Outen

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We started with the basics of kicking and punching, then we moved on once we got proficient in that, we moved on to working with the weapons, and from then on working with the wires.

Chiaki Kuriyama

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The E.P.A. is too important to treat like a reality TV show. People's lives and our country's resources are at stake.

Christine Todd Whitman

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We've sweated and torn out our hair trying to reconstruct our chosen lives, to fashion them like literary sculptures, at once monumental and yet human. We've applied all of our intelligence, our empathy, our critical faculties, our compassion - and we think, in our delusion, that it's still 1960, and our work is going to get noticed.

Nigel Hamilton

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