Derek Walcott
Biography
Quotes
- Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty, the sigh of History dissolves.
- The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.
- Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole.