The English language is nobody's special property.
Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean; it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty, the sigh of History dissolves.
Americans are not brought up with meter. They're not brought up with poetry. If you try to get them to recite, they're too embarrassed.
There's always more to see.
Any serious attempt to try to do something worthwhile is ritualistic.
The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.