The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property… — Quoted

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“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 · Imagination

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A place makes a deep impression on you when you're young. It lives with you. It's like your childhood. It fertilises the imagination.

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I had a pretty sexual imagination for a kid.

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Grandchildren have taught me how important the future is. I try to look through their eyes and envision what's in their imagination. What's the world going to look like when they're my age? That really does take a huge imagination.

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