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Joseph Brodsky

Dátum narodenia:24. máj 1940
Dátum úmrtia:28. január 1996
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Joseph Brodsky, rodným menom Iosif Alexandrovič Brodskij, rus. Ио́сиф Алекса́ндрович Бро́дский bol ruský básnik a neskôr americký esejista a literárny kritik, nositeľ Nobelovej ceny za literatúru z roku 1987.

Citáty Joseph Brodsky

„Politická prostitúcia je v podstate mužské zamestnanie.“

— Joseph Brodsky

O jedlu

„Preklad je umenie možného.“

— Joseph Brodsky

O jedlu, o umenie

„Čo mám povedať o živote? Že sa ukázal ako dlhý. Iba so zármutkom cítim solidárnosť. Ale dokiaľ mi ústa nezapchajú hlinou, Bude sa z nich rozdávať iba vďačnosť.“

— Joseph Brodsky

Život, o vďačnosti

„Dobrý básnik je vždy nástrojom svojho jazyka - nie naopak.“

— Joseph Brodsky

O jedlu

„There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.“

— Joseph Brodsky

„The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even—if you will—eccentricity.“

— Joseph Brodsky

„For darkness restores what light cannot repair.“

— Joseph Brodsky

„Life—the way it really is—is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse“

— Joseph Brodsky

„When hit by boredom, let yourself be crushed by it; submerge, hit bottom. In general, with things unpleasant, the rule is: The sooner you hit bottom, the faster you surface. The idea here is to exact a full look at the worst. The reason boredom deserves such scrutiny is that it represents pure, undiluted time in all its repetitive, redundant, monotonous splendor.

Boredom is your window on the properties of time that one tends to ignore to the likely peril of one's mental equilibrium. It is your window on time's infinity. Once this window opens, don't try to shut it; on the contrary, throw it wide open.“

— Joseph Brodsky

„What concerns me is that man, unable to articulate, to express himself adequately, reverts to action. Since the vocabulary of action is limited, as it were, to his body, he is bound to act violently, extending his vocabulary with a weapon where there should have been an adjective.“

— Joseph Brodsky

„Try not to pay attention to those who will try to make life miserable for you. There will be a lot of those--in the official capacity as well as the self-appointed. Suffer them if you can’t escape them, but once you have steered clear of them, give them the shortest shrift possible. Above all, try to avoid telling stories about the unjust treatment you received at their hands; avoid it no matter how receptive your audience may be. Tales of this sort extend the existence of your antagonists....“

— Joseph Brodsky

„The eye identifies itself not with the body it belongs to but with the object of its attention.“

— Joseph Brodsky
Watermark

„... boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson in your life--... the lesson of your utter insignificance. It is valuable to you, as well as to those you are to rub shoulders with. 'You are finite,' time tells you in a voice of boredom, 'and whatever you do is, from my point of view, futile.' As music to your ears, this, of course, may not count; yet the sense of futility, of limited significance even of your best, most ardent actions is better than the illusion of their consequence and the attendant self-satisfaction.“

— Joseph Brodsky
On Grief and Reason: Essays

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