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Derek Walcott, courtesy of the Nobel Foundation.

"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 on language
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"I try to forget what happiness was, and when that don't work, I study the stars."

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"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 on quarrels
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"Any serious attempt to try to do something worthwhile is ritualistic."

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