Quotes by Walcott, Derek

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 >>

Any serious attempt to try to do something worthwhile is ritualistic. >>

Quotations about Quarrels

The most terrible fight is not when there is one opinion against anoth >>

Contemplative and bookish men must of necessity be more quarrelsome th >>

Though a quarrel in the streets is a thing to be hated, the energies d >>

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.

Walcott, Derek