Derek Walcott Quotes

Look at Allen Ginsberg. In poems like 'Kaddish' and 'Howl,' you can hear a cantor between the lines. It's fully alive, and I think that's what's missing in modern poetry. It's too dry and cerebral.

Derek Walcott

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

PoetryThinkYouLookAliveMissing

I don't want to play for any team. I prefer playing for a lower team and playing against the best. I don't like playing with them: I want to play against them... and beat them.

Metta World Peace

BestTeamPlayWantBeatAgainst

The soprano has all those other instruments in it. It's got the soprano song voice, flute, violin, clarinet, and tenor elements and can even approach the baritone in intensity.

Steve Lacy

SongVoiceViolinApproachElements

Unlike monarchs, who pass power to their heirs at the moment of death to ensure the survival of the regime, tyrants must simply survive as long as possible.

Simon Sebag Montefiore

PowerMomentDeathSurviveSurvival

I criticize my own work pretty harshly.

Ritchie Blackmore

WorkMy OwnOwnPrettyCriticize

I think it's good to stimulate your mind.

Mikaela Shiffrin

GoodMindThinkYourStimulate

The health care system is really designed to reward you for being unhealthy. If you are a healthy person and work hard to be healthy, there are no benefits.

Mike Huckabee

WorkHealthWork HardCareReward

To me the most important thing is a good story, though I know how cliche that sounds.

Josh Trank

GoodMeStoryKnowImportantMost

I grew up really religious, and my family still is, but I'm not so much. That scene in 'Cool Hand Luke', it just destroyed me.

Joshua Ostrander

FamilyMeCoolHandUpDestroyed

I have a fan base eager for more stuff. That makes me more than happy. I know I have an army behind me.

Jon Bellion

HappyMeArmyKnowMoreStuff

My thing is, once you start to put a backbeat on your music or something that has a machine in it, you have popularity, but you lose the flexibility. And you lose a richness.

Wynton Marsalis

MusicStartYouLoseFlexibility

I was given a mask of myself by Frances Barber when we opened 'Julius Caesar.' I looked much younger and prettier. Wearing it was certainly cheaper than Botox.

Phyllida Lloyd

MyselfMaskBarberBotoxCheaper

My wife has her stuff and her taste, and I have my stuff and my taste.

Peter Eisenman

WifeTasteHerStuff

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