In the end, like the Almighty Himself, we make everything in our image, for want of a more reliable model; our artifacts tell more about ourselves than our confessions.
Joseph BrodskyNobody knew literature and history better than these people, nobody could write better Russian than they, nobody despised our times more profoundly. For these characters civilization meant more than daily bread and a nightly hug. This wasn’t, as it would seem, another lost generation. This was the only generation of Russians that had found itself, for whom Giotto and Mandelstam were more imperative than their own personal destinies. Poorly dressed yet somehow still elegant…broken, growing old, they still retained their love for the non-existent (or existing only in their balding heads) thing called ‘civilization.
Joseph BrodskyWhat gets left of a man amounts to a part. To his spoken part. To a part of speech
Joseph BrodskyJeśli założyć, że piękno jest taką dystrybucją światła, która najbardziej odpowiada naszej siatkówce, łza jest formą przyznania się do niemożności zatrzymania przez siatkówkę – a także przez sama łzę – tego piękna na stałe. Miłość, żeby to tak podsumować, ma prędkość światła; rozstanie – prędkość dźwięku
Joseph BrodskyIf one's fated to be born in Caesar's Empire, let him live aloof, provincial, by the seashore...
Joseph Brodskyثم مـاذا..! هـل تسمع..؟
هناك في الظلمة الباردة يبكي إنسان،
إنه يهمس خوفـا،
ثمة أحد تُرك لـرحمة شتائه،
إنه يبكي.. في الظلمـة ثمـة أحـد.
لا اريد اختيار بلد ولا مقبرة
Joseph Brodskyالأشياء كلها رقدت، ففي قبورهم رقـد المـوتى جميعهم،
رقـدوا بسكون، وعلى الأسرة رقـد الأحياء في بحر قمصانهم،
فرادى، غارقين في لجو النوم، رقـدوا بـذعـر.
Because every book of art, be it a poem or a cupola, is understandably a self-portrait of its author, we won't strain ourselves too hard trying to distinguish between the author's persona and the poem's lyrical hero. As a rule, such distinctions are quite meaningless, if only because a lyrical hero is invariably an author's self-projection.
Joseph BrodskyTags: literary-criticism
In the business of writing, what one accumulates is not experience but uncertainties.
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