Poetry Quote by Derek Walcott — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“But drunkenly, or secretly, we swore,”

“All days are nights to see till I see thee,”

“She was a beautiful dreamer. The kind of girl, who kept her head in the clouds, loved above the stars and left regret beneath the earth she walked on.”

“history is what it is. it knows what it did.”

“The bed we loved in was a spinning world”

“There are three lessons I would write-”

“If what we need to dream, to move our spirits most deeply and directly toward and through promise, is discounted as a luxury, then we give up the core -- the fountain -- of our power, our womanness; we give up the future of our worlds. (From "Poetry is Not a Luxury")”