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I'm read in the Caribbean with justice, with fairness. What I expect it to do is to encourage articulacy in the young.Collection: Derek
I don't feel like a celebrity. Poetry justifies celebrity. It's good to have respect for a poet.Collection: Derek
As much as I like teaching and students, it's a kind of rigor, a discipline, that's against my body.Collection: Derek
My body's urge is to be in a pair of shorts, working and going down to the beach.Collection: Derek
Like any art, what is the most imprisoning thing is also the most delivering thing. If an actor knows he only has 12 syllables in a line, the challenge is, 'How can I interpret the meaning and contain it without going one syllable over?'Collection: Derek
Our artists and writers should not be forced like soldiers to die on foreign soil or to return wounded and crawl famously into a hole.Collection: Derek
I'd rather have just one person who reads and feels my work deeply than hundreds of thousands who read it but don't really care about.Collection: Derek
Anybody great, we're all interested in the relics. If you found an unfinished Gauguin, you'd still want to see it.Collection: Derek
I am primarily, absolutely a Caribbean writer.Collection: Derek
I have never felt inhibited in trying to write as well as the greatest English poets.Collection: Derek
Where I come from, we sing poetry.Collection: Derek
My mother was a schoolteacher and very, very encouraging. She understood what it meant when I said I wanted to be a writer; both me and my brother wrote.Collection: Derek
I am not in England; I live in the Caribbean. So I am not hungover by prizes and awards because it does not happen very often.Collection: Derek
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.Collection: Derek
My relationship to Britain is of no consequence.Collection: Derek
I don't think there is any such thing as a black writer or a white writer. Ultimately, there is someone whom one reads.Collection: Derek
The myth of Naipaul... has long been a farce.Collection: Derek
The greatest writers have been, at heart, parochial, provincial in their rootedness.Collection: Derek
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.Collection: Derek
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.Collection: Derek
There is a restless identity in the New World. The New World needs an identity without guilt or blame.Collection: Derek
In painting, you don't have to go through a process of opinion; it speaks directly, and either it works, or it doesn't.Collection: Derek
Musical composition, about which I know little, is a complicated art, and some contemporary music may be the equivalent of a complex abstract painting.Collection: Derek
I write plays and poetry at the same time, and I'm always refining, but I'm not obsessive about it. It's what I like to do, what I've always wanted to do.Collection: Derek
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.Collection: Derek
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.Collection: Derek
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.Collection: Derek
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.Collection: Derek