Best quotes by Derek Walcott on Poetry

Checkout quotes by Derek Walcott on Poetry

• ‟ The fate of poetry is to fall in love with the world.

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• ‟ I have never separated the writing of poetry from prayer. I have grown up believing it is a vocation, a religious vocation.

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• ‟ Ted Hughes is dead. That's a fact, OK. Then there's something called the poetry of Ted Hughes. The poetry of Ted Hughes is more real, very soon, than the myth that Ted Hughes existed - because that can't be proven.

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• ‟ I can be upset by malice. Most critics are very poor poets. Poetry is a craft that takes a lot to appreciate, and there are some critics who have no ear for it. An irresponsible critic can do a lot of psychic damage, but eventually, they don't affect your work.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ I don't think poetry has a readership anywhere, really, that's that big.

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• ‟ That's another pompous expression that is out of fashion, to say that poetry is a gift. It sounds pompous because you say, 'Who gave you the gift, and what is this gift?' And the gift is where I am; the gift is what I have come out of, the people around me who, I think, are beautiful people.

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• ‟ There is no one more deserving of a place in Poets' Corner. Ted Hughes introduced a new kind of landscape into English poetry. The most compelling aspect of his work was his intimacy with nature.

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