Joseph Brodsky Quotes
To translate poetry, one has to possess some art, at the very least the art of stylistic re-embodiment.
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The wretched and miserable would rise into plenty of joy and happiness as soon as they climb the steps of my mosque.
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I don't think I knew that you could be a novelist. I think a lot of my students are in the same condition. I thought it was unreachable, that it was sort of dead people. It took me a long time - I think I was well into novel writing before I really thought, 'Actually, this is a valid pastime.'
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People who live in glass houses... have to answer the door.
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The first decent building I did with my own practice was a chapel in Taiwan.
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How the visual world appears is important to me. I'm always aware of the light. I'm always aware of what I would call the 'deep composition.' Photography in the field is a process of creation, of thought and technique. But ultimately, it's an act of imaginatively seeing from within yourself.
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As many of you know I travel a good bit and do not get to see my friends and family as much as I would like.
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When we talk about the minimum wage, we have to ask ourselves what it is that we owe both our workers and employers. I think clearly we owe them fairness.
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Even if I'm making music for people for $20 a night, at least I'm making music.
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I am not going to talk about my personal life anymore. You have to learn that lesson sometime.
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The mode by which the inevitable is reached is effort.
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The living nightmare for a red state NASCAR driver would be a gay French driver.
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In space, you need to exercise your heart since it's not pumping blood around at the same rate.
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My kids have played sports all their life, and one thing I've tried to teach them when you lose, you try to be a gentleman about it.
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I learned a tremendous amount about dialogue because I suffered as an actor.
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I think the last thing you want to do as a writer, as a storyteller, is to create indifference. I don't necessarily go out of my way to provoke, but I would much rather have a song that triggers a whole myriad of reactions than a song that inspires a shrug of the shoulder.
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I'm not a good Samaritan, I'm a businessman... The goal is to read and react. If we sign an artist that has potential for a shelf life way out in the distance, then we'll stay. But if not, then we won't.
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And if you're horrible to me I'm going to write a song about you and you are not going to like it. That's how I operate.
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I love to eat. If I could eat everything in the world and still be healthy or wouldn't catch a heart attack or stroke, I'd eat everything. I just can't. So I got to watch my health and take care of my family.
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Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's.
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Whereto serves mercy But to confront the visage of offense?
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And we are grateful to the American young men and women who are risking their lives to give the Iraqi people this chance, this dream of democracy in Iraq now.
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In the world of reality the more beautiful a work of art, the longer, we may be sure, was the time required to make it, and the greater the number of different minds which assisted in its development.
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To translate poetry, one has to possess some art, at the very least the art of stylistic re-embodiment.
