Joseph Brodsky Irony Quotations
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- Mason Cooley
- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
- Oscar Wilde
- Soren Kierkegaard
- Catherynne M Valente
- Christopher Moore
- David Foster Wallace
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- James Patterson
- John Waters
- Joseph Brodsky
- Mike Knezevich
- Aaron Copland
- Al Franken
- Albert Camus
- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
- Alexander Mccall Smith
- Alice Lowe
- Ann Beattie
- Ann Landers
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Against Quotes
In the works of the better poets you get the sensation that they're not talking to people any more, or to some seraphical creature. What they're doing is simply talking back to the language itself --as beauty, sensuality, wisdom, irony --those aspects of language of which the poet is a clear mirror. Poetry is not an art or a branch of art, it's something more. If what distinguishes us from other species is speech, then poetry, which is the supreme linguistic operation, is our anthropological, indeed genetic, goal. Anyone who regards poetry as an entertainment, as a ''read,'' commits an anthropological crime, in the first place, against himself.
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Organization Quotes
Language and, presumably, literature are more ancient and inevitable, more durable than any form of social organization. The revulsion, irony, or indifference often expressed by literature toward the state is essentially the reaction of the permanent-better yet, the infinite-against the temporary, against the finite.