...in the business of writing what one accumulates is not expertise but uncertainties. Which is but another name for craft.
Joseph BrodskyTags: writing
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
Joseph BrodskyTags: reading books censorship illiteracy
An object, after all, is what makes infinity private.
Joseph BrodskyThe eye identifies itself not with the body it belongs to but with the object of its attention.
Joseph BrodskyFor darkness restores what light cannot repair.
Joseph BrodskyTags: poetry
...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 BrodskyThe fact that we are living does not mean we are not sick.
Joseph BrodskyTags: sick
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 BrodskyFor a writer, only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language.
Joseph BrodskyWhen 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.
Tags: boredom
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