Derek Walcott Quotes
The poet complains or points out the discontent that lies at the heart of man, the individual man, and how can that be redeemed?

Quotes to Explore
-
If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
-
We all need ways to express ourselves, and poetry is one of mine.
-
Fitzgerald coined the phrase the 'Jazz Age,' and now we're living in the Hip-Hop Age.
-
I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
-
Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
-
When you're listening to radio and hear the same 20 songs over and over and over, you want a break from it. Sometimes you don't want to hear something that sounds just like everything else on the radio. Eventually, if you hear the same sounds and the same musicians and the same mixes and all of that, it will start to sound like elevator music.
-
Nature teaches us that tens of billions of light years may have passed, and life in all of its expressions has always been subjected to an incredible combination of matter and radiation.
-
Being physical and doing my own stunts - it is fun to do these kind of films once in a while, especially before you get too old.
-
I'm blonde and tanned and normal-sized! I'm sweet, shy, funny, have a big heart and I'm nice - and I like to eat.
-
I'd realize it's not worth our time to worry. You do your best, and God will put the right people in your path.
-
By five or six, when the heels start to hurt, I kick off my shoes and walk bare feet. But that's not a big deal. Nobody else is at the office at that time, and as for singing loudly, I don't sing loudly. I might hum a tune at times when I am thinking about something, but that's all fine.
-
I think social media is good for promotion, stuff like that, but people are so negative. People are too negative. If you read the comments, it's just too negative.
-
In a play, you only get one chance, and you have to get it perfect. In a film, you can change and fix it whatever way you want, so really, there's a pretty big difference.
-
When I lived in India, I'd speak like an Indian to get good prices while shopping. I'm good with accents.
-
Large organizations don't worship shareholders or customers, they worship the past. If it were otherwise, it wouldn't take a crisis to set a company on a new path.
-
There are far too many people in university in Britain. If you want to make money, be a plumber.
-
It's the 21st century. It's untenable to suggest that women had no significance and no interest and that just because they didn't vote they had no relevance to the course of our history.
-
Country music is the people's music. It just speaks about real life and about truth and it tells things how they really are.
-
At some point, people may decide that the U.S. stock market has fallen enough. After all, the U.S. economy seems to be getting better, that what happens in China is not going to have that devastating effect on car sales here or how many people buy Apple phones or what happens at - how many people shop at Wal-Mart.
-
I think that's part of the creative process to disagree about certain ideas. But we also agree just as much as we disagree, I would say.
-
Heart of oak are our ships,Heart of oak are our men;We always are ready.
-
I hear that melting-pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven't melted.
-
I'm not one of those stars that goes out and literally dresses to be photographed. I'm kind of a 'what you see is what you get' type of girl when I dress. I go for comfort above everything else.
-
The poet complains or points out the discontent that lies at the heart of man, the individual man, and how can that be redeemed?