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Derek Walcott [1930-0] Saint Lucia

Rank: 103
Poet (with poems)

Confessionalism, Formalism, Gothic, Imagism, Laureate, Methodism, National, Spiritualism, Surrealism

Sir Derek Alton Walcott, KCSL OBE OCC is a Saint Lucia poet and playwright. He received the 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature. He was Professor of Poetry at the University of Essex from 2010 to 2013.

Beauty, History, Imagination

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The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.	Imagination	101
Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean; it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty, the sigh of History dissolves.	Beauty, History	102
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.		103
Any serious attempt to try to do something worthwhile is ritualistic.		104
Memory that yearns to join the centre, a limb remembering the body from which it has been severed, like those bamboo thighs of the god.		105
The sigh of History rises over ruins, not over landscapes, and in the Antilles there are few ruins to sigh over, apart from the ruins of sugar estates and abandoned forts.		106
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.		107
We make too much of that long groan which underlines the past.		108
This is Port of Spain to me, a city ideal in its commercial and human proportions, where a citizen is a walker and not a pedestrian, and this is how Athens may have been before it became a cultural echo.		109
A culture, we all know, is made by its cities.		110
The personal vocabulary, the individual melody whose metre is one's biography, joins in that sound, with any luck, and the body moves like a walking, a waking island.		111
Because that is what such a city is, in the New World, a writer's heaven.		112

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