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- Great Part
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't read to yourself. It's your inner ear that hears a poem. If you hear a poet read his own work, it becomes very exciting. The melody is a great part of it.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother hid the struggle from us children. She complained about her salary, and she had a tough time. Although she became a headmistress, she still had to do a lot of sewing. The more I think about her, the more remarkable I realise she was. And she understood straight away when I said that I wanted to write.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know what would have happened to me as a writer if I had gone to England and shaped my life out of England. Of course, I will never know, but I think I prefer what did happen.
- Encouragement
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- Nov 07, 2020
The headmaster asked to read one of my poems at some celebration or other when I was about 10. When I look back, that is phenomenal encouragement.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hate all that nonsense about not touching the colonialists' language. All that about it being corrupting and belonging to the master and making you Caliban. That thinking just denies you an outlet. You deny everything that is great from a language, whether it is Conrad or Shakespeare.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean; it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty, the sigh of History dissolves.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
This is Port of Spain to me, a city ideal in its commercial and human proportions, where a citizen is a walker and not a pedestrian, and this is how Athens may have been before it became a cultural echo.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
The sigh of History rises over ruins, not over landscapes, and in the Antilles there are few ruins to sigh over, apart from the ruins of sugar estates and abandoned forts.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
Memory that yearns to join the centre, a limb remembering the body from which it has been severed, like those bamboo thighs of the god.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
The personal vocabulary, the individual melody whose metre is one's biography, joins in that sound, with any luck, and the body moves like a walking, a waking island.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
A culture, we all know, is made by its cities.
- Nov 07, 2020
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
- Ought
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- Nov 07, 2020