"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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Source : Derek Walcott, William Baer (1996). “Conversations with Derek Walcott”, p.99, Univ. Press of Mississippi

Derek Walcott

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“Without a high pain threshold, you can't be a successful President.”
“the power of a text is not time-bound. The words go on doing their work.”
“Not being a liberal, I have very little grasp of things that I know nothing about.”
“There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve.”
“We don't have to live up to the expectations of others. Passion is personal. As long as our passion is fueled with the right stuff then keep on plodding forward. I'll never be Mark Twain or Tom Clancy. But that's okay, because neither of them could teach you to mix a boundless number of grays, or where to place the catch light in a portrait.”
“People tend to put entertainers on pedestals. We're human beings, just like you. You may see us smiling, and whether we have money or not, we still have bills to pay, we still have our stresses. I think a lot of people want to focus on others' shortcomings to make themselves feel better. And it's a very sad thing.”
“I simply cannot understand the passion that some people have for making themselves thoroughly uncomfortable and then boasting about it afterwards.”

Source : Patricia Moyes (1961). “Down Among the Dead Men”
“The real debate about both the horrific inequality in the world and about the terrorism and frightening instability in the world requires analysis of the differences in upset-adaption or alienation-from-soul between individuals, races, genders, generations, countries, civilisations and cultures, but until the human condition could be explained and the upset state of the human condition compassionately understood and thus defended that debate could not take place.”

Source : Jeremy Griffith (2016). “Freedom: The End of the Human Condition”, p.638, WTM Publishing and Communications

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