Derek Walcott
St. Lucian poet and playwright
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
It's good that everything's gone, except their language,
Which is everything.
—Derek Walcott, St. Lucian poet and playwright, The Fortunate Traveller (discussing the British Empire), 1981
Posted on July 17, 1998 at 11:54 AM
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.
—Derek Walcott, Interview in Writers at Work, 8th series
Posted on December 6, 2001 at 11:39 AM
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