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 WalcottThe English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.
Derek WalcottVisual surprise is natural in the Caribbean; it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty, the sigh of History dissolves.
Derek Walcott