Quotes by Saint Lucian authors
There's always a need at a critical time for poetry.
Derek Walcott
Saint Lucian poet
Sometimes what we call tragedy, at least in the theater, are really case histories. They're based on the central figure, and things happen to that person, and they're called tragedy because they're extremely sad. But tragedy always has a glorious thing happen at the end of it. That's what the catharsis is.
Derek Walcott
Saint Lucian poet
Creating a poem is a continual process of re-creating your ignorance, in the sense of not knowing what's coming next.
Derek Walcott
Saint Lucian poet
I didn't pass the scholarship exam for Oxford because of poor mathematics.
Derek Walcott
Saint Lucian poet
My mother was a schoolteacher and very, very encouraging. She understood what it meant when I said I wanted to be a writer; both me and my brother wrote.
Derek Walcott
Saint Lucian poet
When I come to England, I don't claim England; I don't own it. I feel a great kinship because of the literature and the landscape. I have great affection for Edward Thomas and Philip Larkin, but there's still this distance: looking on at what I'm admiring, separate from what I am. And that's OK.
Derek Walcott
Saint Lucian poet
Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean; it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty, the sigh of History dissolves.
Derek Walcott
Saint Lucian poet
If you talk about language in the Caribbean, you must relate it to history.
Derek Walcott
Saint Lucian poet
The poet complains or points out the discontent that lies at the heart of man, the individual man, and how can that be redeemed?
Derek Walcott
Saint Lucian poet
As much as I like teaching and students, it's a kind of rigor, a discipline, that's against my body.
Derek Walcott
Saint Lucian poet
My relationship to Britain is of no consequence.
Derek Walcott
Saint Lucian poet
I don't believe that poetry is in danger because nobody wants to read it or appreciate it. There is a tremendous audience for it on any given day or night. You just have to know where to look.
Derek Walcott
Saint Lucian poet
If music goes out of language, then you are in bad trouble.
Derek Walcott
Saint Lucian poet
The Caribbean is an immense ocean that just happens to have a few islands in it. The people have an immense respect for it, awe of it.
Derek Walcott
Saint Lucian poet
The painter I really thought I could learn from was Cezanne - some sort of resemblance to oranges and greens and browns of the dry season in St. Lucia.
Derek Walcott
Saint Lucian poet
When I was seven, I had to stay home for several weeks because of some ailment, whereupon my father elected to teach me so that I should not fall behind. In fact, he taught me in three months as much as the school taught in two years, so, on returning to school, I was shifted from grade 4 to grade 6.
Arthur Lewis
Saint Lucian economist
Two conditions of self-sustaining growth are that a country has acquired a cadre of domestic entrepreneurs and administrators and, secondly, that it has attained to adequate savings and taxable capacity.
Arthur Lewis
Saint Lucian economist
What was moving, I think, was the fact that the statue is a woman and not a heroic, manly figure. So for all her scale and immensity, there's something soft about the Statue of Liberty, something tender about her.
Derek Walcott
Saint Lucian poet
Where I come from, we sing poetry.
Derek Walcott
Saint Lucian poet
My body's urge is to be in a pair of shorts, working and going down to the beach.
Derek Walcott
Saint Lucian poet
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