Frases de Joseph Brodsky

Joseph Brodsky fue un poeta ruso-estadounidense de origen judío, nacido en Leningrado y fallecido en Nueva York. Se lo considera el poeta más grande nacido en la época soviética y, acaso con la sola excepción de B. Pasternak y A. Ajmátova, el más importante en lengua rusa de la segunda mitad del siglo XX. Ganó el Premio Nobel de Literatura en 1987. Wikipedia  

✵ 24. mayo 1940 – 28. enero 1996   •   Otros nombres జోసెఫ్ బ్రాడ్స్కీ, Brodskiy Iosif Aleksandrovich
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Joseph Brodsky Frases y Citas

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Joseph Brodsky: Frases en inglés

“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 libro Less Than One: Selected Essays

Fuente: 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.

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