“There's a ritualistic element to tragedy that everyone shares; there's...” — Derek Walcott Quote

“There's a ritualistic element to tragedy that everyone shares; there's something curiously glorious in terms of the most horrible kind of events that happen.”

“I grew up in a place in which, if you learned poetry, you shouted it out. Boys would scream it out and perform it and do it and flourish it.”

“I don't want to write poems about the royal wedding. I would have to be moved by the event.”

“I've done a lot of different tours. For me, I try to go on tours that I think are gonna be fun. It's, like, grueling, and it's hard, and there's got to be an element to it that's exciting.”

“The truth of faith is a slender, glowing element that runs through even the seemingly ordinary and undramatic moments of existence. Even at low intensity, it is a steady source of illumination. Such religious truth is powerful even when it seems faint, even when it seems obscured by the larger events of history.”

“There's a human element here you start to lose when you start rattling off the best mathematical equation to get the out.”