Famous quotes containing the words walcott and/or history:
“Any serious attempt to try to do something worthwhile is ritualistic.”
—Derek Walcott (b. 1930)
“You treat world history as a mathematician does mathematics, in which nothing but laws and formulas exist, no reality, no good and evil, no time, no yesterday, no tomorrow, nothing but an eternal, shallow, mathematical present.”
—Hermann Hesse (1877–1962)