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- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
After a while, when the writer is mature, it doesn't really matter - not because of finances but because of reputation. It doesn't really matter how many awards you get.
- Nov 07, 2020
I don't want to write poems about the royal wedding. I would have to be moved by the event.
- Consequence
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- Nov 07, 2020
My relationship to Britain is of no consequence.
- Part
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- Nov 07, 2020
I consider the sound of the sea to be part of my body.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fate of poetry is to fall in love with the world.
- Farce
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- Nov 07, 2020
The myth of Naipaul... has long been a farce.
- Greatest
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- Nov 07, 2020
The greatest writers have been, at heart, parochial, provincial in their rootedness.
- England
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think I would have been a totally different kind of writer if I'd gone to England. I might have developed a cynicism about my origins, a belittling of them, or an excessive nostalgia for them.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't feel I've arrived home until I get on the beach. All my life, the theater of the sea has been a very strong thing.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
The older I get, the more aware I am of the banality and indifference of a place like Trinidad to any development of the arts.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
For so long, the world has viewed West Indian culture as semiliterate and backward, which it is not. In my work, I have tried to give that world an exposure so the world can better understand it.
- Patience
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- Nov 07, 2020
A noun is not a name you give something. It is something you watch becoming itself, and you have to have the patience to find out what it is.
- Identity
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a restless identity in the New World. The New World needs an identity without guilt or blame.
- Opinion
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- Nov 07, 2020
In painting, you don't have to go through a process of opinion; it speaks directly, and either it works, or it doesn't.
- Ocean
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Caribbean is an immense ocean that just happens to have a few islands in it. The people have an immense respect for it, awe of it.
- Complicated
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- Nov 07, 2020