He's just dominant. He knows how to play.
"Derek Alton Walcott", Officer of the Order of the British Empire/OBE Order of the Caribbean Community/OCC is a Saint Lucian poet and playwright. He received the 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature. He is currently Professor of Poetry at the University of Essex. His works include the Homeric epic poem Omeros (1990), which many critics view "as Walcott's major achievement." In addition to having won the Nobel, Walcott has won 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 Gold Medal for Poetry/Queen's Medal for Poetry, the inaugural OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature and the 2011 T. S. Eliot Prize for his book of poetry White Egrets.
If you enjoy these quotes, be sure to check out other famous playwrights! More Derek Walcott on Wikipedia.I come from a place that likes grandeur; it likes large gestures; it is not inhibited by flourish; it is a rhetorical society; it is a society of physical performance; it is a society of style.
I have always been fascinated by the musical talent, the calypso, the carnival and the sweet sound of pan, ... Trinidad was the best place to host the world premier and to display the vast local talent.
The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.
This image of us as being art supportive and very cultured is false, ... The money that we have now that is keeping this place going has come from Canada-the University of Toronto. When you come across sponsors like these gentlemen we have today, what it does for the individual artist is enormous. It means that we can feel that there is some direction to our lives.
Any serious attempt to try to do something worthwhile is ritualistic.
We knew there was a point when Kevin would come through and carry us.
Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole.
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