Joseph Brodsky citáty
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
„The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even — if you will — eccentricity.“
— Joseph Brodsky
Context: The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even — if you will — eccentricity. That is, something that can't be feigned, faked, imitated; something even a seasoned imposter couldn't be happy with. Something, in other words, that can't be shared, like your own skin: not even by a minority. Evil is a sucker for solidity. It always goes for big numbers, for confident granite, for ideological purity, for drilled armies and balanced sheets. Its proclivity for such things has to do with its innate insecurity, but this realization, again, is of small comfort when Evil triumphs.
"A Commencement Address" (1984), delivered at Williams College; As quoted in: Robert Inchausti (2014) Thinking through Thomas Merton. p. 110
„The formula for prison is a lack of space counterbalanced by a surplus of time.“
— Joseph Brodsky
Context: The formula for prison is a lack of space counterbalanced by a surplus of time. This is what really bothers you, that you can't win. Prison is lack of alternatives, and the telescopic predictability of the future is what drives you crazy.
p. 28
„For darkness restores what light cannot repair. There we are married, blest, we make once more the two-backed beast and children are the fair excuse of what we're naked for.“
— Joseph Brodsky
Quoted in: Drusilla Modjeska, Beth Yahp (1995) Picador New Writing. Vol. 3-4, p. 13
