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I have to live, socially, in an almost unfinished society. Among the almost great, among the almost true, among the almost honest. That allows me to describe the anguish.

I didn't pass the scholarship exam for Oxford because of poor mathematics.

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What makes a poem is the discipline inherent in making a poem: trying to fit feelings in the requisite number of syllables and lines, disciplining one's feelings.

If music goes out of language, then you are in bad trouble.

When you're young, influences count.

I'm read in the Caribbean with justice, with fairness. What I expect it to do is to encourage articulacy in the young.

Rhyme is an attempt to reassemble and reaffirm the possibility of paradise. There is a wholeness, a serenity, in sounds coupling to form a memory.

I don't feel like a celebrity. Poetry justifies celebrity. It's good to have respect for a poet.

As much as I like teaching and students, it's a kind of rigor, a discipline, that's against my body.

My body's urge is to be in a pair of shorts, working and going down to the beach.

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...

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.

The number of people who read a poem is not as important as how the poem affects those who read it.

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.

Anybody great, we're all interested in the relics. If you found an unfinished Gauguin, you'd still want to see it.

I am primarily, absolutely a Caribbean writer.

I have never felt inhibited in trying to write as well as the greatest English poets.

Where I come from, we sing poetry.

If you talk about language in the Caribbean, you must relate it to history.

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.

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