“My dedication to trying to be a poet started very, very young, and I w...” — Derek Walcott Quote

“My dedication to trying to be a poet started very, very young, and I was very well encouraged by good teachers and by older friends and so on, so I think it is a benediction, and I also think it is a calling, a duty.”

“There is a force of exultation, a celebration of luck, when a writer finds himself a witness to the early morning of a culture that is defining itself, branch by branch, leaf by leaf, in that self-defining dawn, which is why, especially at the edge of the sea, it is good to make a ritual of the sunrise.”

“Film is something that came later into my life. I had a Jesuit education, and I consider acting and the theater as kind of a calling - a vocation.”

“I will be very sad and worried if the imperialist government was calling me a great democratic man.”

“Elected officials need to stop with the name calling and hateful statements.”