I come from a place that likes grandeur; it likes large gestures; it is not inhibited by flourish; it is a rhetorical society; it is a society of physical performance; it is a society of style.
Source: Interview in Writers at Work (Eighth Series; ed. by George Plimpton, 1988).
-- Derek Walcott, (Jan 23 1930-2017), West Indian poet, playwright; He was noted for works that explore the Caribbean cultural experience; received the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1992