The fate of poetry is to fall in love with the wor... -Derek Walcott

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The fate of poetry is to fall in love with the world.

Derek Walcott , Poet
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Derek Walcott was a celebrated poet and playwright known for his contributions to Caribbean literature and cultural identity. He might be acclaimed for his poetic brilliance.

Derek Walcott Quotes to Explore

That's another pompous expression that is out of fashion, to say that poetry is a gift. It sounds pompous because you say, 'Who gave you the gift, and...
Look at Allen Ginsberg. In poems like 'Kaddish' and 'Howl,' you can hear a cantor between the lines. It's fully alive, and I think that's what's missi...
Ted Hughes is dead. That's a fact, OK. Then there's something called the poetry of Ted Hughes. The poetry of Ted Hughes is more real, very soon, than ...
The fate of poetry is to fall in love with the world....
I don't feel I've arrived home until I get on the beach. All my life, the theater of the sea has been a very strong thing....
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...
I don't want to write poems about the royal wedding. I would have to be moved by the event....
The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself....
A noun is not a name you give something. It is something you watch becoming itself, and you have to have the patience to find out what it is....
There is a force of exultation, a celebration of luck, when a writer finds himself a witness to the early morning of a culture that is defining itself...

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In fact a lot of them I think are absolute baloney. Those Charles Olsens and people like that. At first I was interested in seeing what they were up t...
I was very interested in American poetry for many years. Much less now....
I never think about poetry except when I'm writing it. I mean my poetry....
However, I learned something. I thought that if the young person, the student, has poetry in him or her, to offer them help is like offering a propell...
And the second question, can poetry be taught? I didn't think so....
And if they haven't got poetry in them, there's nothing you can do that will produce it....
All those authors there, most of whom of course I've never met. That's the poetry side, that's the prose side, that's the fishing and miscellaneous be...
Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into poetry....
Most people can't tell now who wrote what. I like that blurring of identities within the band. because it becomes a unified thing that can't be relate...
In my opinion, the most significant works of the twentieth century are those that rise beyond the conceptual tyranny of genre; they are, at the same t...