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Joseph Brodsky
There are worse...
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
Every individual ought...
Every individual ought to know at least one poet from cover to cover: if not as a guide through the world, then as a...
A language ....
A language . . . is a more ancient and inevitable thing than any state.
Source: In...
A poet is...
A poet is a combination of an instrument and a human being in one person, with the former gradually taking over the...
If a poet...
If a poet has any obligation toward society, it is to write well. Being in the minority, he has no other choice....
Every writing career...
Every writing career starts as a personal quest for sainthood, for self-betterment. Sooner or later, and as a rule...
The poetic notion...
The poetic notion of infinity is far greater than that which is sponsored by any creed.
For the poet...
For the poet the credo or doctrine is not the point of arrival but is, on the contrary, the point of departure for the...
After all, it...
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...
Bad literature ....
Bad literature . . . is a form of treason.
Source: In NY Times, 1 Oct 72
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Man is what...
Man is what he reads.
Source: Quoted by Thomas D'Evelyn Christian Science Monitor,...
For boredom speaks...
For boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson of your life -- the lesson of...
Poetry is rather...
Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production.
Life, the way...
Life, the way it really is, is a battle not between Bad and Good but between Bad and...
Twentieth-century Russian literature...
Twentieth-century Russian literature has produced nothing special except perhaps one novel and two stories by Andrei...
There are worse...
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
Every individual ought...
Every individual ought to know at least one poet from cover to cover: if not as a guide through the world, then as a...
A language ....
A language . . . is a more ancient and inevitable thing than any state.
Source: In...
A poet is...
A poet is a combination of an instrument and a human being in one person, with the former gradually taking over the...
If a poet...
If a poet has any obligation toward society, it is to write well. Being in the minority, he has no other choice....
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