Derek Walcott Quotes

I can be upset by malice. Most critics are very poor poets. Poetry is a craft that takes a lot to appreciate, and there are some critics who have no ear for it. An irresponsible critic can do a lot of psychic damage, but eventually, they don't affect your work.

Derek Walcott

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Ideas are more powerful than people.

Jim DeMint

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Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons.

Jessica Lange

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If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Andre Breton

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I believe that art has been a vehicle for me that's been about enlightenment and expanding my own parameters, to give me courage to exercise the freedom that I have in life.

Jeff Koons

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I condemn racism on all levels, whether personal or systemic.

Tony Evans

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There is a lot of parenting that's completely out of your control, but I think we live in an era right now where we think if, God forbid, you couldn't talk to someone, you would flip out - you know what I mean?

Rosemarie DeWitt

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My mother was a Bible student, and when I was a youngster, both my mother and father would say, 'If people would only live by the Golden Rule, there wouldn't be the problems that there are.' In other words, 'treat people the way you want to be treated.' If somebody mistreats you, two wrongs won't make a right.

Monte Irvin

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That's why I survived because I still believe I've got something to say.

Lou Reed

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I'd love to play a gangster but I think people might say I looked a bit too young and cheeky to play a character who'd just blown someones head off!

Dominic Monaghan

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What we are doing in educating students is trying to prepare them to live more fulfilling lives for the decades after they graduate. And trying to provide a better, richer, fairer, more decent society for the generations after.

Derek Bok

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It's a lot easier to opine from the sidelines.

Dee Dee Myers

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The problem of a rising population destroying more than four tons of soil for every human already alive needs to find its way into corporate board rooms if we are to enjoy future financial, economic and political stability.

Allan Savory

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