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Joseph Brodsky
American Poet
Born: May 24, 1940
Died: Jan 28, 1996
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Related authors: Edgar Allan Poe Emily Dickinson Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Maya Angelou Ralph Waldo Emerson Robert Frost T. S. Eliot Walt Whitman
An ethical man doesn't need a consensus of his allies in order to act against something he finds reprehensible. Joseph Brodsky
Man Finds Something Allies He His Reprehensible Order Against Ethical Act Consensus Need
One of the worst things that can happen to an artist is to perceive himself as the owner of his art, and art as his tool. A product of the marketplace sensibility, this attitude barely differs on a psychological plane from the patron's view of the artist as a paid employee. Joseph Brodsky
Attitude Art Tool Marketplace Worst Perceive Employee Himself His Owner Artist Happen Psychological Sensibility Patron Plane Barely Product View Paid Things Differs
For a head of state presiding over a ruined economy, an active army with its low wages is god-sent: All he's got to do is provide it with an objective. Joseph Brodsky
Army Active State Ruined Objective He Head Over Economy Got Wages Provide Low
The blue-collar is not supposed to read Horace, nor the farmer in his overalls Montale or Marvell. Nor, for that matter, is the politician expected to know by heart Gerard Manley Hopkins or Elizabeth Bishop. This is dumb as well as dangerous. Joseph Brodsky
Heart Dangerous Matter Politician Bishop Hopkins Supposed Overalls Know Well Read His Nor Dumb Expected Blue-Collar Farmer Elizabeth
After the last line of a poem, nothing follows except literary criticism. Joseph Brodsky
Criticism Nothing Follows Poem Except Line Literary After Literary Criticism Last
It is almost a rule that the more complex a man is, the simpler his billing. A person with a retrospective ability gone rampant often would be called an historian. Similarly, one to whom reality doesn't seem to make sense gets dubbed a philosopher. Joseph Brodsky
Man Reality Sense Gone Philosopher Rampant Rule Complex Would Would-Be Ability Seem Similarly More Simpler Almost Make Retrospective His Historian Person Gets Often Billing Whom
Unlike life, a work of art never gets taken for granted: it is always viewed against its precursors and predecessors. Joseph Brodsky
Life Work Art Unlike Never Taken Taken For Granted Always Gets Predecessors Against Viewed Granted
On the whole, books are indeed less finite than ourselves. Even the worst among them outlast their authors - mainly because they occupy a smaller amount of physical space than those who penned them. Often they sit on the shelves absorbing dust long after the writer himself has turned into a handful of dust. Joseph Brodsky
Space Long Sit Dust Books Indeed Those Worst Ourselves Physical Outlast Finite Writer Absorb Smaller Mainly Himself Because Occupy Shelves Handful Than Authors Often After Them Turned Less Who Whole Even Among Amount
The career of an esthete was nothing I ever intended. Joseph Brodsky
Nothing Intended Ever Career
Art is a spirit seeking flesh but finding words. Joseph Brodsky
Art Words Finding Spirit Seeking Flesh

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