Joseph Brodsky Language Quotations
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- Mahatma Gandhi
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
- Ferdinand De Saussure
- Terence Mckenna
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
- Larry Wall
- Rumi
- Mark Twain
- Mason Cooley
- Edward Sapir
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Noam Chomsky
- Roland Barthes
- Amos Oz
- Bjarne Stroustrup
- Confucius
- George Orwell
- Henry David Thoreau
- Salman Rushdie
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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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Humility Quotes
If there is anything good about exile, it is that it teaches one humility. It accelerates one’s drift into isolation, an absolute perspective. Into the condition at which all one is left with is oneself and one’s language, with nobody or nothing in between. Exile brings you overnight where it would normally take a lifetime to go.