Derek Walcott Quotes

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.

Derek Walcott

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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I don't mind people want to think Muhammad is the greatest fighter around. Everybody wants to make him great because of his mouth, that he was the best. He was good, but that doesn't make him great. I proved that.

Joe Frazier

GoodGreatBestPeopleMindThink

Perhaps faith is a faith in one's self, the belief that one wouldn't feel so moved by the encounter if it weren't divine, a trust in one's own deepest positive responses. To doubt it would involve a self-alienation.

Robert Nozick

PositiveFaithTrustSelfFeelOwn

Living in the age of information and technology, everything gets out so easy and so, so quickly.

Matt Hardy

TechnologyAgeInformationLiving

I've never wanted to be anybody else, and I never thought anybody else could be me more than me.

Michael Beasley

MeThoughtMoreNeverThanAnybody

People, for reasons of their own, often fail to do things that would be good for them or good for society. Those failures - joined with the similar failures of others - can readily have a substantial effect on interstate commerce.

John Roberts

GoodPeopleSocietyOthersOwnFail

I believe inspiration is contagious.

Amy Purdy

BelieveI BelieveInspiration

Sometimes, because of my success, I am afraid that I was not a good father. With the first two I was too strong, and with the other three I was too weak.

Roberto Cavalli

SuccessGoodFatherI AmStrong

Parenting advice is mostly useless because every family is uniquely its own; artistic advice is mostly useless because every artist works in their own way. Thus, figuring out how to balance the two has an intense specificity.

Rumaan Alam

FamilyParentingBalanceAdviceWay

O, how glorious would it be to set my heel upon the Pole and turn myself 360 degrees in a second!

Joseph Banks

MyselfTurnGloriousWouldSetHow

Telomeres are the ends of our chromosomes that control how long we live. As telomeres become shorter, then cells age and die more quickly. In simple terms, as your telomeres get shorter, your life gets shorter.

Dean Ornish

LifeLiveAgeSimpleControlDie

TV's hard work. I don't know how the hell Angela Lansbury survived doing 'Murder, She Wrote' all those years. And sure, everyone wants to be Bruce Willis or George Clooney - they want to be in film for the range of characters you get to play.

Christopher Meloni

WorkHard WorkHellDoingYouPlay

I'm very happy where 3-D is going, which is that it's becoming a choice - and thankfully, most people are still choosing 2-D.

Christopher Nolan

HappyPeopleChoiceGoingBecoming

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