Derek Walcott quotes
Derek Walcott
Birthdate: 23. January 1930
Date of death: 17. March 2017
Sir Derek Alton Walcott, KCSL, OBE, OCC was a Saint Lucian poet and playwright. He received the 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature. He was the University of Alberta's first distinguished scholar in residence, where he taught undergraduate and graduate writing courses. He also served as Professor of Poetry at the University of Essex from 2010 to 2013. His works include the Homeric epic poem Omeros , which many critics view "as Walcott's major achievement." In addition to winning the Nobel Prize, Walcott received many literary awards over the course of his career, including an Obie Award in 1971 for his play Dream on Monkey Mountain, a MacArthur Foundation "genius" award, a Royal Society of Literature Award, the Queen's Medal for Poetry, the inaugural OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, the 2011 T. S. Eliot Prize for his book of poetry White Egrets and the Griffin Trust For Excellence in Poetry Lifetime Recognition Award in 2015. Wikipedia
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Derek WalcottQuotes Derek Walcott
"Love after Love"
Source: "A Far Cry from Africa" (1962), Collected Poems, 1948-1984 (1986)
Conversations with Derek Walcott (University Press Mississippi, 1996, page.165)
„Any serious attempt to try to do something worthwhile is ritualistic.“
Interview with Ed Hirsch (1986), Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, Eighth Series (Penguin, 1988)
"A Far Cry from Africa" (1962), White Egrets
„I try to forget what happiness was,
and when that don't work, I study the stars.“
"After the Storm"
"A Far Cry from Africa" (1962), "The Schooner Flight" (1980)
— Derek Walcott, book Omeros
"A Far Cry from Africa" (1962), Omeros
Interview with Ed Hirsch (1986), Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, Eighth Series (Penguin, 1988)
Interview with Ed Hirsch (1986), Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, Eighth Series (Penguin, 1988)
Uncommon Genius: How Great Ideas are Born (Penguin, 1990), pp. 176
"A Far Cry from Africa" (1962)
„Peel your own image from the mirror.
Sit. Feast on your life.“
"Love after Love"
"A Far Cry from Africa" (1962), Collected Poems, 1948-1984 (1986)
