Derek Walcottwas a renowned poet, playwright, and visual artist from the Caribbean, particularly known for his contributions to literature and the arts. Derek Walcott was born on January 23, 1930, in Castries, Saint Lucia, a small island in the Caribbean. Walcott’s education began at the Saint Mary’s College in Saint Lucia. He later attended the University of the West Indies in Jamaica, where he studied literature, art, and drama. Despite facing financial challenges, he continued his studies and eventually moved to Trinidad, where he founded the Trinidad Theatre Workshop in 1959.
Famous Derek Walcott Quotes
“To change your language you must change your life.” ~ Derek Walcott“The truest writers are those who see language not as a linguistic process but as a living element.” ~ Derek Walcott“Time is the metre, memory the only plot.” ~ Derek Walcott“I have never separated the writing of poetry from prayer. I have grown up believing it is a vocation, a religious vocation.” ~ Derek Walcott“Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean; it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty, the sigh of History dissolves.” ~ Derek Walcott“I come from a place that likes grandeur; it likes large gestures; it is not inhibited by flourish; it is a rhetorical society; it is a society of physical performance; it is a society of style.” ~ Derek Walcott“Summer for prose and lemons, for nakedness and languor.” ~ Derek Walcott“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.” ~ Derek Walcott“The English language is nobody’s special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.” ~ Derek Walcott“The time will come when, with elation, you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror, and each will smile at the other’s welcome.” ~ Derek Walcott“Good science and good art are always about a condition of awe. I don’t think there is any other function for the poet or the scientist in the human tribe but the astonishment of the soul.” ~ Derek Walcott“For every poet it is always morning in the world; history a forgotten, insomniac night. The fate of poetry is to fall in love with the world in spite of history.” ~ Derek Walcott
