Derek Walcott

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

— Derek Walcott

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

— Derek Walcott

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.

— Derek Walcott

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

— Derek Walcott