Frases de Derek Walcott

Derek Walcott foi um escritor santa-lucense. Recebeu o Nobel de Literatura de 1992.

✵ 23. Janeiro 1930 – 17. Março 2017
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Derek Walcott: Frases em inglês

“What are men? Children who doubt.”

Derek Walcott

Fonte: The Odyssey

“Any serious attempt to try to do something worthwhile is ritualistic.”

Derek Walcott

Interview with Ed Hirsch (1986), Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, Eighth Series (Penguin, 1988)

“I try to forget what happiness was,
and when that don't work, I study the stars.”

Derek Walcott

"After the Storm"
"A Far Cry from Africa" (1962), "The Schooner Flight" (1980)

“The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.”

Derek Walcott

Interview with Ed Hirsch (1986), Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, Eighth Series (Penguin, 1988)

“Peel your own image from the mirror.
Sit. Feast on your life.”

Derek Walcott

"Love after Love"
"A Far Cry from Africa" (1962), Collected Poems, 1948-1984 (1986)