The English language is nobody’s special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.
Derek Walcott (b. 1930)
The English language is nobody’s special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.
Nobel prize-winning St. Lucian poet Derek Walcott turns 82 today.
yesssssss my dad used to read Walcott to me when I was younger, he’s good.
this is possibly slightly ironic for me to reblog considering the thing I posted that has the highest number of notes is...