Quote #5

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

More from Derek Walcott

  1. Any serious attempt to try to do something worthwhile is ritualistic.
  2. I come from a place that likes grandeur; it likes large gestures; it is not inhibited by flourish; it is a rhetorical society; it is a soci…
  3. After the Storm (The Schooner 'Flight' (1980))
  4. Adios, Carenage line 40-44 (The Schooner 'Flight' (1980))

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