[Derek] Walcott insists, "you're still in search of casualness; you're still in search of a diction that is relaxed, not too emphatic. . . . What you should be hearing is somebody talking, and talking conversationally, somebody who is perhaps much brighter than you yourself are: So the poem is smarter than you; the poem has more brains than you." The tension--the intention--in White Egrets is "to make the memorable phrase that is casual. I think that that is what I have tried to do . . . to create the casual out of something that may be very rhetorical conceptually. That's very hard."
from The Globe and Mail: Derek Walcott on white egrets and the right regrets
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