33 ordspråk av Joseph Brodsky
Joseph Brodsky
Joseph Brodsky föddes den May 24th 1940 och dog den 28 January 1996 - Nobel Prize for Literature in 1987.
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 A language is a more ancient and inevitable thing than any state. |
| A poet is a combination of an instrument and a human being in one person, with the former gradually taking over the latter. The sensation of this takeover is responsible for timbre; the realization of it, for destiny. |
| 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. |
| Bad literature is a form of treason. |
| 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. |
| Every writing career starts as a personal quest for sainthood, for self-betterment. Sooner or later, and as a rule quite soon, a man discovers that his pen accomplishes a lot more than his soul. |
| For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward 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. |
| For the poet the credo or doctrine is not the point of arrival but is, on the contrary, the point of departure for the metaphysical journey. |
| How delightful to find a friend in everyone. |
| I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul when a man who looks at himself is so ashamed that he tries to make some sort of change - within himself, not on the outside. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| If there is any substitute for love, it is memory |
| It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything. |
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