Writer

Derek Walcott

Saint Lucian poet

Total Mentions

Direct Quotes

1987

First Mention

2023

Latest Mention

Most Frequent Citing Countries

Saint Lucia(8)Trinidad and Tobago(2)Saint Vincent and the Grenadines(2)Saint Lucia (2)Antigua and Barbuda(2)

All Mentions (8)

2023·Saint Lucia

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y, progress and sustainability for all? For the sake of us all and for future generations, we must find it. To quote Saint Lucia-born Nobel laureate. Derek Walcott: “Hope is not a thing to be deferred, but a thing to be pursued with all hungry passion of our existence”.

2021·Saint Lucia

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d most noble principles upon which it was founded. Mr, President, I end with a verse from Love After Love by Nobel Laureate and Saint Lucian son, Sir Derek Walcott: “The time will come when, with elation you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror and each will smile at the other’s welc

2017·Saint Lucia

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mmunity follow that ethos. We never forget that we are one global ecosystem that demands that we all be our brother’s keeper. Our Nobel Laureate, Sir Derek Walcott, has spoken to the sense of responsibility to one’s neighbour that is rooted in our cultural DNA and the imperative of helping, not out of a sense of

2008·Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

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th the continent, we, the citizens of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, ask ourselves, in the words of the Caribbean Nobel Laureate from Saint Lucia, Derek Walcott, “How can I face such slaughter and be cool?! How can I turn from Africa and live?” The conflict in Darfur is over five years old, and the time has l

2004·Antigua and Barbuda

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ough we are small, we are overwhelming in human worth. The Commonwealth Caribbean gave Bob Marley to the world. We gave Nobel Laureates Arthur Lewis, Derek Walcott and Vidia Naipaul to the world. We have given our music to the world in the form of reggae, calypso, soca and steel band. We have enriched the cuisin

2000·Saint Lucia

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ossessed sectors of mankind. The message that Saint Lucia brings to this Millennium Assembly comes from the pen of Saint Lucia's Nobel Prize Laureate Derek Walcott, who reminds us that, “There are no worlds to conquer/But worlds to re-create”.

1994·Saint Lucia

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the world community. In his Nobel Prize acceptance speech in 1993, entitled "The Antilles, Fragments of an Epic Memory," Saint Lucia’s Poet Laureate, Derek Walcott, said: "Break a vase and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole." W

1987·Trinidad and Tobago

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e pride in our intellectuals and artists who have become world figures - Marcus Garvey, C. L. R. James, George Padmore, Eric Williams, V. S. Naipaul, Derek Walcott, George Lamming, Arthur Lewis, to name but a few. Our sportsmen, particularly in the field of cricket, have written their names in international hall

Year	Country	Context	Speech
2023	Saint Lucia	y, progress and sustainability for all? For the sake of us all and for future generations, we must find it. To quote Saint Lucia-born Nobel laureate. Derek Walcott: “Hope is not a thing to be deferred, but a thing to be pursued with all hungry passion of our existence”.	View
2021	Saint Lucia	d most noble principles upon which it was founded. Mr, President, I end with a verse from Love After Love by Nobel Laureate and Saint Lucian son, Sir Derek Walcott: “The time will come when, with elation you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror and each will smile at the other’s welc	View
2017	Saint Lucia	mmunity follow that ethos. We never forget that we are one global ecosystem that demands that we all be our brother’s keeper. Our Nobel Laureate, Sir Derek Walcott, has spoken to the sense of responsibility to one’s neighbour that is rooted in our cultural DNA and the imperative of helping, not out of a sense of	View
2008	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	th the continent, we, the citizens of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, ask ourselves, in the words of the Caribbean Nobel Laureate from Saint Lucia, Derek Walcott, “How can I face such slaughter and be cool?! How can I turn from Africa and live?” The conflict in Darfur is over five years old, and the time has l	View
2004	Antigua and Barbuda	ough we are small, we are overwhelming in human worth. The Commonwealth Caribbean gave Bob Marley to the world. We gave Nobel Laureates Arthur Lewis, Derek Walcott and Vidia Naipaul to the world. We have given our music to the world in the form of reggae, calypso, soca and steel band. We have enriched the cuisin	View
2000	Saint Lucia	ossessed sectors of mankind. The message that Saint Lucia brings to this Millennium Assembly comes from the pen of Saint Lucia's Nobel Prize Laureate Derek Walcott, who reminds us that, “There are no worlds to conquer/But worlds to re-create”.	View
1994	Saint Lucia	the world community. In his Nobel Prize acceptance speech in 1993, entitled "The Antilles, Fragments of an Epic Memory," Saint Lucia’s Poet Laureate, Derek Walcott, said: "Break a vase and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole." W	View
1987	Trinidad and Tobago	e pride in our intellectuals and artists who have become world figures - Marcus Garvey, C. L. R. James, George Padmore, Eric Williams, V. S. Naipaul, Derek Walcott, George Lamming, Arthur Lewis, to name but a few. Our sportsmen, particularly in the field of cricket, have written their names in international hall	View