Derek Walcott
Derek Walcott
Sir Derek Alton Walcott, KCSL OBE OCCis a Saint Lucia poet and playwright. He received the 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature. He is currently Professor of Poetry at the University of Essex. His works include the Homeric epic poem Omeros, which many critics view "as Walcott's major achievement." In addition to having won the Nobel, Walcott has won many literary awards over the course of his career, including an Obie Award in 1971 for his play Dream on Monkey Mountain,...
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth23 January 1930
knows
He's just dominant. He knows how to play.
carry kevin knew point
We knew there was a point when Kevin would come through and carry us.
black-history elements language
… the truest writers are those who see language not as a linguistic process but as a living element…
stronger vases granted
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.
style likes gestures
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.
landscape surprise natural
Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean; it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty, the sigh of History dissolves.
time memories plot
Time is the metre, memory the only plot.
shadow metaphor
The word and the shadow of the word / makes a thing both itself and something else / till we are metaphors and not ourselves . . .
special language english-language
The English language is nobody's special property.