Derek Walcott Quotes
I can be upset by malice. Most critics are very poor poets. Poetry is a craft that takes a lot to appreciate, and there are some critics who have no ear for it. An irresponsible critic can do a lot of psychic damage, but eventually, they don't affect your work.
Derek Walcott
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I don't keep people around me that aren't family. You don't get to stay. Unless you're eating at the table with us, you're not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.
Lady Gaga
I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
Viggo Mortensen
I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
Kanye West
I come from an African Caribbean background. I've been influenced by a reggae church music style, contemporary gospel, and rock all fused together.
Laura Mvula
What we ask of the developed countries is to let the Third World find a third way.
Ferdinand Marcos
Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
J. B. Priestley
The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.
Friedrich Nietzsche
I never wear sneakers. I don't feel comfortable in them.
Max Irons
Our deep respect for the land and its harvest is the legacy of generations of farmers who put food on our tables, preserved our landscape, and inspired us with a powerful work ethic.
James H. Douglas, Jr.
Couples without kids have each other, their friends, families, and Siri to talk to. It's not like they're quarantining themselves in an underground bunker, never to take a romantic stroll on the beach or attend a Morrissey concert ever again. They're just using birth control.
Jen Kirkman
The practice of asanas purges the body of its impurities, bringing strength, firmness, calm, and clarity of mind.
Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
I can be upset by malice. Most critics are very poor poets. Poetry is a craft that takes a lot to appreciate, and there are some critics who have no ear for it. An irresponsible critic can do a lot of psychic damage, but eventually, they don't affect your work.
Derek Walcott
