Frases de Joseph Brodsky

Joseph Brodsky, pseudônimo de Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky foi um poeta russo naturalizado estadunidense.

Brodsky entrou em conflito com as autoridades soviéticas e foi expulso da União Soviética em 1972, estabelecendo-se nos Estados Unidos com a ajuda de W. H. Auden e de outros escritores. Ele ensinou, posteriormente em universidades, incluindo a de Yale, Cambridge e Michigan.Foi agraciado com o Nobel de Literatura de 1987. Wikipedia  

✵ 24. Maio 1940 – 28. Janeiro 1996   •   Outros nomes జోసెఫ్ బ్రాడ్స్కీ, Brodskiy Iosif Aleksandrovich
Joseph Brodsky: 19   citações 2   Curtidas

Joseph Brodsky frases e citações

“Há crimes piores do que queimar livros. Um deles é não lê-los.”

Fonte: Revista Caras http://www.caras.com.br, Edição 676.

Joseph Brodsky: Frases em inglês

“The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even — if you will — eccentricity.”

"A Commencement Address" (1984), delivered at Williams College; As quoted in: Robert Inchausti (2014) Thinking through Thomas Merton. p. 110
Contexto: 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.

“The formula for prison is a lack of space counterbalanced by a surplus of time.”

Joseph Brodsky livro Less Than One: Selected Essays

Fonte: Less Than One: Selected Essays (1986), p. 28
Contexto: 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.