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.

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• Derek Walcott:

  We make too much of that long groan which underlines the past.

• Derek Walcott:

  Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean; it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty

• Derek Walcott:

  This is Port of Spain to me, a city ideal in its commercial and human proportions, where a citizen

• Derek Walcott:

  The sigh of History rises over ruins, not over landscapes, and in the Antilles there are few ruins

• Derek Walcott:

  Memory that yearns to join the centre, a limb remembering the body from which it has been severed,

• Derek Walcott:

  The personal vocabulary, the individual melody whose metre is one's biography, joins in that sound,

• Derek Walcott:

  Because that is what such a city is, in the New World, a writer's heaven.

• Derek Walcott:

  A culture, we all know, is made by its cities.

• Derek Walcott:

  If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.

• Derek Walcott:

  I think young writers ought to be heretical.