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CerebralWisdom: Life-the way it really is-is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse. - Joseph Brodsky
AtefehKhanoom: "If there is anything good about exile, it is that it teaches one humility. It accelerates one’s drift into isolation, an absolute perspective. Into the condition at which all one is left with is oneself and one’s language, with nobody or nothing in between."
- Joseph Brodsky
AtefehKhanoom: "...Exile brings you overnight where it would normally take a lifetime to go." - Joseph Brodsky
NSardzoska: However modest the place you happen to occupy, if
it has the slightest mark of decency, you can be sure
that someday someone will walk in and claim it for
himself or, what is worst, suggest that you share it.
JOSEPH BRODSKY
DriaPustaka: “There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
― Joseph Brodsky
KidinaSandbox: Again....
"Should the truth about the world exist, it's bound to be non-human."
Joseph Brodsky
Adam_Sung: “There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
― Joseph Brodsky
RamonSomoza1: There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. Joseph Brodsky
Peteski_1703: This looks amazing. Animated film based on Gogol's Nose and the Shostakovich opera of the short story. By Andrei Khrzhanovsky who did A Room and A Half about Joseph Brodsky. Debuted at Kinotavr in 2020. Anyone seen it?
alsodweeb: When it comes to Mudi,
Every raita becomes Joseph Brodsky.
"Life the way it really is, is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse"
~ Joseph Brodsky
AntonioM646: EEUU: 11 Nobel de Literatura
1930 Sinclair Lewis
1936 Eugene O’Neill
1938 Pearl S. Buck
1949 William Faulkner
1954 Ernest Hemingway
1962 John Steinbeck
1976 Saul Bellow
1978 Isaac Singer
1987 Joseph Brodsky
1993 Toni Morrison
2016 Bob Dylan
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DedVova2: All enforced through your employer. Joseph Brodsky, when asked how he likes the US, replied: "They leave me alone." The basic right that is not mentioned in various declarations.
nikadubrovsky: Venice, such a Venice. Maybe I have to stay here. All my childhood friends' favorite - Joseph Brodsky advised that “ should you happen to be born in an empire, it's best to live in a remote province by the sea.”
catoletters: “The longer you stay skeptical, doubtful, intellectually uncomfortable, the better it is for you.” ― Joseph Brodsky
Diegotch: “What we regard as Evil is capable of a fairly ubiquitous presence if only because it tends to appear in the guise of good.”
Joseph Brodsky
ojalart: “It’s a maddening thing in itself to look at an old poem of yours.” —Joseph Brodsky
DriaPustaka: “There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
― Joseph Brodsky
queercinephile: proof that joseph brodsky is one of the best poets who ever lived
ojalart: “All the literati keep at least one imaginary friend.” —Joseph Brodsky
JoeHallJoeHall: "'A school is a factory is a poem is a prison is academia is boredom, with flashes of panic'-Joseph Brodsky. Shauna Osborn: "brodsky manages in this last sentence / to do something huge: produce a one-sentence explanation of ideological state apparatuses:"
parisreview: “It’s a maddening thing in itself to look at an old poem of yours.” —Joseph Brodsky
EminaMelonic: New by me! Some reflection on our strange times with some help from Joseph Brodsky. :)
dshnsama: "I wish I knew no astronomy
when stars appear,
when the moon skims the water
that sighs and shifts in its slumber.”
Joseph Brodsky (A Song)
inadeguatezza: On page 14 of 243 of Fuga da Bisanzio, by Joseph Brodsky
unpoetaloco: Abel Posse's Vivir Venecia is structured much like Watermark by Joseph Brodsky, who, along with Borges, figures prominently in Posse's memoir.
parisreview: “All the literati keep at least one imaginary friend.” —Joseph Brodsky
temu_e_dr: Past winners have included novelists such as Wole Soyinka, Ernest Hemingway, Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Toni Morrison, poets such as Pablo Neruda, Joseph Brodsky and Rabindranath Tagore, and playwrights including Harold Pinter and Eugene O'Neill
kaguta_dennis: “The longer you stay skeptical, doubtful, intellectually uncomfortable, the better it is for you.” - Joseph Brodsky
CerebralWisdom: Life-the way it really is-is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse. - Joseph Brodsky
DriaPustaka: “There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
― Joseph Brodsky
dedisparates: "then, propped on silk pillows, turns on a jeweled bird/ that lulls him with its level, identical song/. It's this sort of anniversary, odd-numbered, wrong, that we celebrate these days in our "Land-under-Heaven"." Joseph Brodsky. (Derek Walcott, trans,)
catoletters: “The longer you stay skeptical, doubtful, intellectually uncomfortable, the better it is for you.” ― Joseph Brodsky
DriaPustaka: “There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
― Joseph Brodsky
AsniaAsim: “For darkness restores what light cannot repair.”
― Joseph Brodsky
SamuelLoncar: “A great writer does not in fact need history.” Joseph Brodsky,
ndpar: 2/2 "we recognized something in the West, in the civilization, as our own; perhaps even more so there than at home. What's more,… we were prepared to pay for that sentiment… with the rest of our lives." — Joseph Brodsky. Spoils of War
ArsEstHabitus: Life is a game with many rules but no referee.
Small wonder, then, that so many play dirty, that so few win, that so many lose.
Joseph Brodsky
SundPamela: 2) Whether dead or alive, woman,
It's all the same
Son or God, I am thine.
from Nature Morte by Joseph Brodsky
KidinaSandbox: "Should the truth about the world exist, it is virtually certain to be non-human."
Joseph Brodsky
imcozy: There are worse crimes
than burning books.
One of them is
not reading them.
~ Joseph Brodsky
180Principle: “I wish you were here, dear, I wish you were here.
I wish you sat on the sofa
and I sat near.”
– Joseph Brodsky, “A Song”
Pendidikan4Id: “There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
― Joseph Brodsky
pronoydsarkar: "There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them." - Joseph Brodsky, poet and essayist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1987.
DriaPustaka: “There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
― Joseph Brodsky
novl_official: “There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
― Joseph Brodsky
WordsForMasses: A poet seeks not recognition but understanding.
~ Joseph Brodsky
Lit_Nuts: "There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them." -Joseph Brodsky
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poetrymania21: Constancy is an evolution
of one’s living quarters
into a thought: a continuation
of a parallelogram or a rectangle
by means—as Clausewitz
would have put it—
of the voice and,
ultimately, the gray matter.
--Joseph Brodsky
RamonSomoza1: There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. Joseph Brodsky
DriaPustaka: “There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
― Joseph Brodsky
DriaPustaka: “There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
― Joseph Brodsky
modestholdings: “Life — the way it really is — is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse”
―Joseph Brodsky
TheMTWhite: “Anyone who regards poetry as an entertainment, as "a read", commits an anthropological crime, in the first place, against himself.”—Joseph Brodsky
mjhousiaux12: Russian poet Joseph Brodsky: "The Tarzan series alone, I daresay, did more for de-Stalinization than all Khrushchev’s speeches at the 20th party congress and after."
amanfewwords: There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
Joseph Brodsky
OMD_Ventures: A Poet’s 6 Tips on Life
Joseph Brodsky was a Russian-American poet who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1972. In 1988, he gave a commencement speech to students at the University of Michigan. The speech boiled down what he considered to be six tips.
St1Station: Slightly OT perhaps but anyone who travels to Turkey really should put Trebizond and the Pontus on their itinerary. Joseph Brodsky said of Kaliningrad that “the trees still whisper in German”; there is still just about something of the same for Greek in corners of SE Turkey
DriaPustaka: “There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
― Joseph Brodsky
jenbenka: “The one who writes a poem writes it above all because verse writing is an extraordinary accelerator of conscience, of thinking, of comprehending the universe.” — Joseph Brodsky
LAHMCCABE: Anthony Hecht wrote this lovely one for Joseph Brodsky (with echoes of Auden’s for Yeats)
DriaPustaka: “There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
― Joseph Brodsky
op109: With riverbanks of frozen chocolate a city
mixes its reflections with milk. A chiming of bells.
A room with a lampshade. Distantly
clouds burst open like kitchen doors with busy angels.
-Joseph Brodsky, opening to “With riverbanks of frozen chocolate, a city,” trans. D. Walcott
FINALED: Joseph Brodsky's grave at San Michele, Venice.
itspooran: There are worse crimes than burning books.
One of them is not reading them.
—Joseph Brodsky
DriaPustaka: “There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
― Joseph Brodsky
gobind_menghwar: Art fosters a sense of uniqueness, of individuality, of separateness – thus turning one from a social animal into an autonomous “I”. Lots of things can be shared: a bed, a piece of bread, convictions, a mistress, but not a poem by, say, Rainer Maria Rilke.
-Joseph Brodsky
dem8z: we are powerless when it comes to its worst violation: that of not reading the books. For that crime, a person pays with his whole life; if the offender is a nation, it pays with its history. 2/
—Joseph Brodsky, “Nobel Prize Address”
(1987)
Elena24820236: The world will probably not be saved, but the individual can always be saved.
Joseph Brodsky. Nobel lecture
nytimesworld: Whatever the “despicable aspects of this mode of existence,” as Brodsky described his communal apartment, his home life served his art well, inspiring some of his most intense poetry and other writings.
nytimesworld: In a well-known 1985 essay, Brodsky said communal living had a “redeeming side” because it “bares life to its basics: it strips off any illusions about human nature.”
CerebralWisdom: Life-the way it really is-is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse. - Joseph Brodsky
Pendidikan4Id: “There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
― Joseph Brodsky
catoletters: “The longer you stay skeptical, doubtful, intellectually uncomfortable, the better it is for you.” ― Joseph Brodsky
ddeuno_xx: "There are worst crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them"
-Joseph Brodsky
OMD_Ventures: OMD Newsletter 235: Russia from Rurikids, Joseph Brodsky's Tips on Life, Silly Narcissism, Buffett x2...
“I don’t think any of us are normal people.” - Wes Anderson
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Niyati42: “Life—the way it really is—is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse.”
—Joseph Brodsky
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CasaAmarilla: Joseph Brodsky Slept Here. The Great Poet’s Cranky Neighbor Couldn’t Care Less.
Joseph_Fasano_: "One of my teachers at Columbia was Joseph Brodsky...and he said 'look,' he said, 'you Americans, you are so naïve. You think evil is going to come into your houses wearing big black boots. It doesn’t come like that. Look at the language. It begins in the language.'" - Marie Howe
loverus8: "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."
- Joseph Brodsky
LateAgitations: Joseph Brodsky on Hubert Butler: "he was a dishonesty hunter". Is there a statue to Butler in Ireland? There should be.
SundPamela: America, nay the world, is in need of men & women of letters: here is Susan Sontag speaking about such a man, a Russian poet who became an American citizen, Joseph Brodsky~start at 38 minutes wait a few seconds 4 Susan, who is followed by Derek Walcott:
Elena49643187: Two things justify the existence of man on earth: love and creativity.
Joseph Brodsky
Momentrade: “There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.” - Joseph Brodsky
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RamonSomoza1: There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. Joseph Brodsky
orlandoaptours: “No matter under what circumstances you leave it, home does not cease to be home. No matter how you lived there-well or poorly.” – Joseph Brodsky
DriaPustaka: “There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
― Joseph Brodsky
sunnysunwords: “Life is not a battle between good and bad, but between bad and worse.”
Joseph Brodsky
PlayYourLifeToo: Life is a game with many rules but no referee. One learns how to play it more by watching it than by consulting any book, including the holy book. Small wonder, then, that so many play dirty, that so few win, that so many lose.
Joseph Brodsky
padochka: really sums up the russian obsession with immortalising dead giants (who more often than not wanted nothing more than to escape), whilst making the lives of real, ordinary, living people impossible
jckyjeck: How delightful to find a friend in everyone.
- Joseph Brodsky
Zentastical: “What we regard as Evil is capable of a fairly ubiquitous presence if only because it tends to appear in the guise of good.” — Joseph Brodsky
LoriPerkinsRAB: Joseph Brodsky Slept Here. The Great Poet’s Cranky Neighbor Couldn’t Care Less.
CelticJade13: I'm not sure I like the "cranky neighbor" part of the headline. She's an 81-year-old woman who doesn't want to leave her home, and she suggested a viable alternative when it became available.
pmhswe: "In his 1985 essay, he wrote: 'These 10 square meters were mine, and they were the best 10 square meters I’ve ever known.'
"Ten square meters is just over 100 square feet."
magary: Making do.
MashaDC: Exciting that my birth city finally has a museum dedicated to the Nobel Prize-winning poet Joseph Brodsky. My biggest takeaway from this piece, though, is this: never underestimate a strong-willed Russian babushka.
akira_tsuch: Joseph Brodsky Slept Here. The Great Poet’s Cranky Neighbor Couldn’t Care Less.
mclayfield: "Russia loves to lionise its literary giants, but even the mighty Russian state could not open a museum in a shared apartment with other residents still ensconced in it."
henryghenrik: Found this fascinating... believe Brodsky would have liked & respected Ms. Fyodorova. I heard him read (I mean RECITE) in Boston & in Providence, where I was able to talk with him afterwards.
mcco12mtl: Joseph Brodsky Slept Here. The Great Poet’s Cranky Neighbor Couldn’t Care Less.
