“Freedom
is when you forget the spelling of the tyrant’s name”
#JosephBrodsky https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57940/a-part-of-speech
Einst Ikone des Leningrader Undergrounds, später Literaturnobelpreisträger: Joseph Brodsky gehörte zu den herausragendsten Dichtern der Generation, die die russische Poesie nach dem späten Stalinismus wiederbelebte. Heute wäre er 83 Jahre alt geworden.
Thus #climbing into the limelight is bound to be done at the expense of the others who won't be climbing
#JosephBrodsky
Be most vigilant over your index finger, for it is blame-thirsty. A pointed finger is a victim's logo
#JosephBrodsky
“Stop spraying shit all over the poets.”
Pound and Brodsky in Venice
Megan Fernandes
#Poetry #EzraPound #JosephBrodsky #MeganFernandes
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/159241/pound-and-brodsky-in-venice
#meganfernandes #josephbrodsky #ezrapound #poetry
“this bleak surmise:
the world was made to hold no end or telos,
and if--as some would tell us-there is a goal, it's not ourselves.
No butterfly collector
can trap light or detect where the darkness dwells.”
#JosephBrodsky from “The Butterfly”
#rereading some #JosephBrodsky this evening. #poetry #books
#Rereading #josephbrodsky #poetry #books
Steal, or still, the #echo, so that you don't allow an event to claim any more time than it took for it to occur
#JosephBrodsky
Be most vigilant over your index finger, for it is blame-thirsty. A pointed finger is a victim's logo
#JosephBrodsky
The longer you stay #skeptical, doubtful, intellectually uncomfortable, the better it is for you
#JosephBrodsky
Don't set too much store by politicians, because of the size of their job, which is too big even for the best among them
#JosephBrodsky
Of all the parts of your body, be most vigilant over your index finger, for it is blame-thirsty. A pointed finger is a victim's logo
#JosephBrodsky
Don't set too much store by politicians, because of the size of their job, which is too big even for the best among them
#JosephBrodsky
Climbing into the limelight is bound to be one at the expense of the others who won't be climbing
#JosephBrodsky
Try to remember that human dignity is an absolute, not a piecemeal notion
#JosephBrodsky
The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even eccentricity
#JosephBrodsky
#Life is a game with many rules but no referee. One learns how to play it more by watching it than by consulting any book, including the Holy Book. Small wonder, then, that so many play dirty, that so few win, that so many lose #JosephBrodsky
That blame-thirsty finger oscillates as wildly as it does because the resolve was never great enough in the first place
#JosephBrodsky