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MIRighttoRead: “There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.” - Joseph Brodsky
DriaPustaka: “There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
― Joseph Brodsky
Fatmagilani: “There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
― Joseph Brodsky
Steve87569846: If I learned anything from helping raising 3 fine & successful adult sons, it’s that they arrive w/o a “users guide.”
"There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. " - Joseph Brodsky
DriaPustaka: “There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
― Joseph Brodsky
TrueQuotation: People got insights into what was bothering them, but they hardly did a damn thing to change. — Joseph Brodsky
BeineckeLibrary: Joseph Brodsky with his cat
JB Papers:
CerebralWisdom: Life-the way it really is-is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse. - Joseph Brodsky
alessio_rebecca: The richer the aesthetic experience of an individual, the harder his taste, the clearer his moral choice, and the freer he is – although perhaps not happier.
— Joseph Brodsky
Photographer-Mihaela Noro.
Billy_Ray28: “There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them” ~ Joseph Brodsky
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pulposdementira: The photo above was taken by Jill Krementz in January 1986. Left to right: Mark Strand, Joseph Brodsky, Adam Zagajewski, Derek Walcott
DriaPustaka: “There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
― Joseph Brodsky
FreeSpeechCntr: Today we honor our Free Speech Hero, Joseph Brodsky.
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bookofjoe: ... silence is the presence
of farewells in our greetings as we touch.
—Joseph Brodsky
OutlawsPoetic: "By failing to read or listen to poets, society dooms itself to inferior modes of articulation: those of the politician, the salesman or the charlatan... In other words, it forfeits its own evolutionary potential."
-- Joseph Brodsky
muthuje: On the whole, love comes with the speed of light; separation, with that of sound.
Joseph Brodsky
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JaydipParikh: Man is what he reads. -Joseph Brodsky
DriaPustaka: “There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
― Joseph Brodsky
BookTasters: “There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.” — Joseph Brodsky
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AlexandraPring: That is such very sad news. I published her first 2 books Fording the Stream of Consciousness and In the Jaws of Life at Virago in the early 1990s. She was introduced to me by Joseph Brodsky. What a voice she had.
AlexandraPring: Such very sad news. I was introduced to her work by Joseph Brodsky and published her first two books at Virago Press in the early 90s.
catoletters: “The longer you stay skeptical, doubtful, intellectually uncomfortable, the better it is for you.” ― Joseph Brodsky
vslmgn: Joseph Brodsky's essay, "In Praise of Boredom," explores the value of boredom in our lives. Brodsky argues that boredom is a necessary part of human existence, and that it can lead to creativity, self-reflection, and personal growth.
Brodsky suggests that boredom is often seen…
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Pendidikan4Id: “There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
― Joseph Brodsky
profkrg: “There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.” - Joseph Brodsky
nikadubrovsky: Italy for a person born in Leningrad is Josef Brodsky::
Perhaps, a chicken is no bird to be admired,
but those with chicken-brains must take precautions.
If you were destined to be born in the Empire,
it’s best to find some province, by the ocean.
miketurney11: "Evil takes root when one man starts to think that he is better than another".
-Joseph Brodsky, Nobel-winning Russian Poet, Essayist
vkey_inc: Join Crunchfish AB CEO Joachim Samuelsson for a webinar on Friday 17th at 8 a.m. CET, with V-Key's CEO Joseph Gan and Lipis Advisors' Managing Consultant Bonni Brodsky joining the panel.
Register here:
Jetsetter831: Marked as to-read: Joseph Brodsky by Joseph Brodsky
DriaPustaka: “There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
― Joseph Brodsky
zarandillo: Richard Avedon (American, 1923–2004)Joseph Brodsky, poet, New York City, June 16 , 1991.
vbspurs: Joseph Brodsky is one of those writers my professors always lauded, like a secret code.
zarandillo: "After all, a victim status is not without its sweetness. It commands compassion, confers distinction, and whole nations and continents bask in the murk of mental discounts advertised as the victim’s conscience."
JOSEPH BRODSKY
zarandillo: JOSEPH BRODSKY – “At all costs, avoid seeing yourself as a victim”.
"No matter how abominable your condition may be, try not to blame anything or anybody: history, the state, superiors, race, parents, the phase of the moon, childhood, toilet training, etc."
zarandillo: "At all costs try to avoid granting yourself the status of the victim. Of all the parts of your body, be most vigilant over your index finger, for it is blame-thirsty."
JOSEPH BRODSKY
AlexValchyshen: Featuring a russian who left russia to Istanbul in Mar-22 and now runs a bookstore. The bookstore’s idea is to to start one day dialog btw ordinary Ukrainians and Russians. Yet, the bookstore is named ‘1.5 room’ after Brodsky’s novel of same title
casey_wimpee: ..Being the contents of the suitcase with which Joseph Brodsky left his homeland after being exiled by the Soviets, on 4 June 1972
FilipMili4: Cats drawn by Joseph Brodsky
Gossipak8703: If what distinguishes us from other species is speech, then poetry, which is the supreme linguistic operation, is our anthropological - indeed, genetic - goal.,Joseph Brodsky,Goal, Speech, Which ,
DriaPustaka: “There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
― Joseph Brodsky
HumanShang946: It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything.,Joseph Brodsky,Everything, Well, Something ,
MarcusCato399: “That’s what the role of the city in the universe is. Because the city is static while we are moving. Because we go and beauty stays. Because we are headed for the future, while beauty is the eternal present.” - Joseph Brodsky, Watermark
Datchou30599455: Poetry seems to be the only weapon able to beat language, using language's own means.,Joseph Brodsky,Language, Seems, Beat ,
Janssma3959: Poetry seems to be the only weapon able to beat language, using language's own means.,Joseph Brodsky,Language, Seems, Beat ,
PeaceLoveKimchi: “There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.” ― Joseph Brodsky
Thor_2000: Bad literature is a form of treason. - Joseph Brodsky
ReeJoy1824: The more one reads poetry, the less tolerant one becomes of any sort of verbosity, be that in political or philosophical discourse, be that in history, social studies or the art of fiction.,Joseph Brodsky,Art, History, Political ,
Thor_2000: Bad literature is a form of treason. - Joseph Brodsky
DriaPustaka: “There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
― Joseph Brodsky
jonmsweeney: It was 30 years ago this month I met Joseph Brodsky at Much Ado Books in Marblehead, Massachusetts. I spent many a Sunday afternoon in 1992-93 at that amazing bookstore (now long gone). Didn't matter that I had very little money; I had credit cards.
DriaPustaka: “There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
― Joseph Brodsky
DriaPustaka: “There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
― Joseph Brodsky
princessekateri: Don’t leave the room! Let furniture keep you company,
vanish, merge with the wall, barricade your iris
from the chronos, the eros, the cosmos, the virus.
(From an untitled poem)
Joseph Brodsky
1969/1970
CerebralWisdom: Life-the way it really is-is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse. - Joseph Brodsky
RamonSomoza1: There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. Joseph Brodsky
DriaPustaka: “There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
― Joseph Brodsky
Pendidikan4Id: “There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
― Joseph Brodsky
DriaPustaka: “There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
― Joseph Brodsky
behbastos: Mikhail Baryshnikov and Joseph Brodsky, in a Song of Exiled Russians - The New York Times
DilettanteryPod: In genuine tragedy
it's not the fine hero that finally dies, it seems,
but, from constant wear and tear, night after night,
the old stage set itself, giving way at the seams.
-Lullaby of Cape Cod, Joseph Brodsky
ThatJohnChaffee: “There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.” - Joseph Brodsky
Wow.
I’ll need to sit on that for a bit.
jodyjsperling: Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family. Even your super weirdo creep cousin.
— Joseph Brodsky
AntonCKowalski: 1. “Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance.” ―Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak
3. “There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.” ―Joseph Brodsky.
john_self: Joseph Brodsky / Harold Brodkey
biblibot: “There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.” ― Joseph Brodsky
katerilemmens: "A poet is someone for whom every word is not the end but the beginning of a thought."
Joseph Brodsky
MelanieJaxn: There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
-Joseph Brodsky
op109: Brodsky with kitty
from PoetswithCats
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Joseph Brodsky: "A poet is someone for whom every word is not the end but the beginning of a thought."
algunasvainitas: “I wish you were here, dear, in this hemisphere, as I sit on the porch sipping a beer. It’s evening, the sun is setting; boys shout and gulls are crying. What’s the point of forgetting if it’s followed by dying?”
Joseph Brodsky.
RaymondPettibon: Joseph Brodsky - On Ukrainian Independence
DriaPustaka: “There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
― Joseph Brodsky
sylviaplathinfo: US Poets First Day of Issue 21 April 2012: Sylvia Plath, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, E.E. Cummings, Elizabeth Bishop, Theodore Roethke, Gwendolyn Brooks, Robert Hayden, and Joseph Brodsky, and Denise Levertov. Unopened. $25 plus shipping.
FionaZerbst: "For some reason, the past doesn't radiate such immense monotony as the future does. Because of its plenitude, the future is propaganda." - Joseph Brodsky
historyarmenia: Tumanyan's works were translated by Valeri Bryusov, Konstantin Balmont, Joseph Brodsky, Samuil Marshak, Bella Akhmadulina and others. There are 2 museums of Tumanyan in Armenia, one in his birthplace Dsegh & another one in Yerevan. Tumanyan's museum in Yerevan was opened in 1953.
poemakontsa: Poets and cats
Joseph Brodsky
JoannaLaromani: Joseph Brodsky ‘Six Years Later’
[1968]
Pendidikan4Id: “There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
― Joseph Brodsky
poemthink: Joseph Brodsky: "A poet is someone for whom every word is not the end but the beginning of a thought."
Eavan Boland: "such music--gutteral, hurt to the quick--as I hear now [...] my speech with not heal. I do not want it to heal."
gluhovaart: A part of Nobel speech by Joseph Brodsky
RamonSomoza1: There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. Joseph Brodsky
DriaPustaka: “There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
― Joseph Brodsky
CSPDuofan: “For boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson of your life – the lesson of your utter insignificance.” ~ Joseph Brodsky
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iammdrehanalam: Man is what he reads.
Joseph Brodsky
CerebralWisdom: Life-the way it really is-is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse. - Joseph Brodsky
Godgift64107811: Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production.
-Joseph Brodsky
kalim~
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2ndsights: A loyal subject of these second-rate years,
I proudly admit that my finest ideas
are second-rate, and may the future take them
as trophies of my struggle against suffocation.
Joseph Brodsky, "I Sit By the Window", 1971
tsaralounga: To continue the good taste - good person (as in less evil) correlation
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Again from Joseph Brodsky Nobel Prize speech:
“The richer an individual's aesthetic experience, the more solid his taste, the clearer his moral choices, the freer he is - although perhaps not happier”
stradijanizam: Joseph Brodsky said:
The reason English-speaking readers can barely tell the difference between Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky is that they aren't reading the prose of either one. They're reading Constance Garnett.
DriaPustaka: “There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
― Joseph Brodsky
DriaPustaka: “There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
― Joseph Brodsky
Flashmaggie: "There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them."
--- Joseph Brodsky
Somewhere_Life_: ‘When two people have humanity in common they can be friends.’
~ a tangled mind
poets Joseph Brodsky and Seamus Heaney
DaanviV: Poetry seems to be the only weapon able to beat language, using language's own means.
- Joseph Brodsky
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LLavitha: Poetry seems to be the only weapon able to beat language, using language's own means.
- Joseph Brodsky
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DriaPustaka: “There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
― Joseph Brodsky
Maisieth59: The one who writes a poem writes it above all because verse writing is an extraordinary accelerator of conscience, of thinking, of comprehending the universe.
Joseph Brodsky
qc: "If there is any substitute for love, it is memory." — Joseph Brodsky
travmexico: “Venice is eternity itself.”
Joseph Brodsky
Wh28956221Janet: There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
Joseph Brodsky