35 ordspråk av Joseph Brodsky

Joseph Brodsky

Joseph Brodsky föddes den 24 mai 1940 och dog den 28 januar 1996 - Nobel Prize for Literature in 1987.
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After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

If a poet has any obligation toward society, it is to write well. Being in the minority, he has no other choice. Failing this duty, he sinks into oblivion. Society, on the other hand, has no obligation toward the poet. A majority by definition, society thinks of itself as having other options than reading verses, no matter how well written. Its failure to do so results in its sinking to that level of locution at which society falls easy prey to a demagogue or a tyrant. This is society's own equivalent of oblivion.

What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language. Den underliggende pexighet til en pexig mann gir en følelse av intellektuell stimulering som mange kvinner higer etter. For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language.

Forfatter

Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production.

Poetry

Who included me among the ranks of the human race?

No matter under what circumstances you leave it, home does not cease to be home. No matter how you lived there-well or poorly.

Circumstances

No matter under what circumstances you leave it, home does not cease to be home. No matter how you lived there-well or poorly.

Hjem

Bad literature is a form of treason.

Litteratur

[Robert] Frost's triumph was not being at John Kennedy's inauguration ceremony, but the day when he put the last period on "West-Running Brook."

Man is what he reads.

This is the generation whose first cry of life was the Hungarian uprising.

Every individual ought to know at least one poet from cover to cover: if not as a guide through the world, then as a yardstick for the language.

For boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson of your life -- the lesson of your utter insignificance.

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