There are some things people avoid saying in interviews because they sound pompous or sentimental or too mystical. Derek Walcott More Quotes by Derek Walcott More Quotes From Derek Walcott Love After Love all your life, whom you have ignored for another, who knows you by heart. Take down the love letters from the bookshelf, the photographs, the desperate notes, peel your own image from the mirror. Sit. Feast on your life. Derek Walcott mirrors letters heart When you get a class reciting some great poems, it'll tear your heart out. Derek Walcott tears heart class What are men? Children who doubt. Derek Walcott doubt men children The truest writers are those who see language not as a linguistic process but as a living element. Derek Walcott black-history elements language The word and the shadow of the word / makes a thing both itself and something else / till we are metaphors and not ourselves . . . Derek Walcott metaphor shadow I try to forget what happiness was, and when that don't work, I study the stars. Derek Walcott study stars trying The thing that is believed is a reality. Derek Walcott reality The English language is nobody's special property. Derek Walcott english-language language special We make too much of that long groan which underlines the past. Derek Walcott too-much long past Damn wind shift sudden as a woman mind. Derek Walcott damn mind wind Slowly my body grows a single sound, slowly I become a bell, an oval, disembodied vowel, I grow, an owl, an aureole, white fire poesia "Metamorfosi, I. Luna Derek Walcott fire white owl The poem is itself a mirror. Derek Walcott mirrors 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. Derek Walcott vocabulary islands moving Art is History's nostalgia, it prefers a thatched roof to a concrete factory, and the huge church above a bleached village. Derek Walcott village church art The voice does go up in a poem. It is an address, even if it is to oneself. Derek Walcott addresses voice doe To change your language you must change your life. Derek Walcott changing-your-life language life We look and see what we see in a mirror, and we believe it. That's important, the question of belief. The question is: Should we believe what we see in a mirror? Derek Walcott important mirrors believe Any serious attempt to try to do something worthwhile is ritualistic. Derek Walcott worthwhile serious trying How can I turn from Africa and live? Derek Walcott turns 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. Derek Walcott bamboo body memories
