Quotes of the Day

Author Derek Walcott attends the twelfth day of La Milanesiana 2008 at Teatro Dal Verme on July 8, 2008 in Milan, Italy.
Wednesday, May. 13, 2009

Open quoteI am disappointed that such low tactics have been used in this election.Close quote

  • DEREK WALCOTT,
  • Nobel Prize–winning poet, withdrawing his candidacy for the next Oxford professor of poetry after photocopied pages from a book describing decades-old allegations of sexual harassment against Walcott were anonymously sent to Oxford academics
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