"A culture, we all know, is made by its cities."

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Source : Derek Walcott (2014). “What the Twilight Says: Essays”, p.71, Macmillan

Derek Walcott

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“Rights are best guarded when each person and group guards for others those rights they wish guarded for themselves.”
“O blessed Health! thou art above all gold and treasure; 'tis thou who enlargest the soul, and openest all its powers to receive instruction, and to relish virtue. He that has thee has little more to wish for, and he that is so wretched as to want thee, wants everything with thee.”
“If we maintain the open-mindedness of children, we challenge fixed ideas and established structures, including our own. We listen to people in other denominations and religions. We don't find demons in those with whom we disagree. We don't cozy up to people who mouth our jargon. If we are open, we rarely resort to either-or: either creation or evolution, liberty or law, sacred or secular, Beethoven or Madonna. We focus on both-and, fully aware that God's truth cannot be imprisoned in a small definition.”
“We retire too early and we die too young, our prime of life should be in the 70's and old age should not come until we are almost 100.”
“I have had heart surgery three times, so I know what it was like to have pins and needles stuck in you.”
“It's very important that there should be cross-fertilisation between government and academia. Both parties can benefit from having a better understanding of how the other works.”
“I don't want my writing to be recognized.”
“Put yourself in a state of mind where you say to yourself, 'Here is an opportunity for me to celebrate like never before, my own power, my own ability to get myself to do whatever is necessary.”

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