Derek WalcottThinkers

Brokenness is an opportunity for increasing strength — 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.

A Language is the property of the language itself.

Maturity is the assimilation of the features of every ancestor.

Writing poety is discovery through writing — if you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.