Famous quotes containing the word walcott:
“A wind is ruffling the tawny pelt
Of Africa. Kikuyu, quick as flies,
Batten upon the bloodstreams of the veldt.”
—Derek Walcott (b. 1930)
“I try to forget what happiness was,
and when that don’t work, I study the stars.”
—Derek Walcott (b. 1930)
“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 (b. 1930)