- Painter
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have never separated the writing of poetry from prayer. I have grown up believing it is a vocation, a religious vocation.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
A fisherman, say, working on a beach doing his job, may be photographed by a tourist because it's photogenic to see him working, and the Caribbean is extremely photogenic, so poverty is photogenic, and a lot of people are photographed in their poverty, and sometimes it's kind of exploited.
- Duty
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dedication to trying to be a poet started very, very young, and I was very well encouraged by good teachers and by older friends and so on, so I think it is a benediction, and I also think it is a calling, a duty.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
How does a poet teach himself or herself? I think chiefly by imitation, chiefly by practising it as a deliberate technical exercise often. Translation, imitation, those were my methods anyway.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am not defined as a black writer in the Caribbean, but as soon as I go to America or the U.K., my place becomes black theatre. It's a little ridiculous.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I made a vow that I wouldn't be tempted by what could happen to me if I went to Europe. I thought, 'You could be absorbed in it - it's so seductive, you might lose your own search for identity.' Then, when I did finally go to Europe, I was able to resist it because I had established my own identity.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I knew very early what I wanted to do, and I considered myself lucky to know that's what I wanted, even in a place like Saint Lucia where there was no publishing house and no theatre.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
My delight in things is definitely Caribbean. It has to do with landscape and food. The fact that my language may have a metrical direction is because that's the shape of the language. I didn't make that shape.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
The country that I was coming from, the island I was in, hadn't been written about, really. So I thought that I virtually had it all to myself, including the language that was spoken there, which was a French Creole, and a landscape that is not recorded, really, and the people.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
My family background really only consists of my mother. She was a widow. My father died quite young; he must have been thirty-one. Then there was my twin brother and my sister. We had two aunts as well, my father's sisters. But the immediate family consisted of my mother, my brother, my sister, and me.
- Nov 07, 2020
There are some things people avoid saying in interviews because they sound pompous or sentimental or too mystical.
- Nov 07, 2020
Minor writers think style is all.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
When a child's mind develops and is heading in a certain direction, we murder that mentality, we murder that imagination, by saying, 'Now, that is all well and good, but now sit down and start to study.'
- Grateful
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am grateful, you know. I have to be grateful in the sense that I feel that what I have is a gift.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020