Quotes by Walcott, Derek

Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger >>

The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property >>

I try to forget what happiness was, and when that don't work, I study >>

Quotations about Language

The secret of language is the secret of sympathy and its full charm is >>

No literature is complete until the language it was written in is dead >>

Methinks the human method of expression by sound of tongue is very ele >>

The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.

Walcott, Derek