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• Tenía la fantasía de convertirme en neurocirujano. Ya sabes, la fantasía normal de un chico judío, pero yo quería ser neurocirujano por alguna razón. Así que empecé de esta manera desagradable. Era ayudante del forense, abriendo cadáveres, sacando las tripas, abriendo cráneos, sacando los sesos.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Boys, Opening Up, Skulls

  "El arte de la oscuridad de Joseph Brodsky". www.washingtonpost.com. 23 de octubre de 1987.

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• In poetic thought, the role of the subconscious is played by euphony.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Poetry, Roles, Literature

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• Snobbery? But it's only a form of despair.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Despair, Form, Snobbery

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• Because every book of art, be it a poem or a cupola, is understandably a self-portrait of its author, we won't strain ourselves too hard trying to distinguish between the author's persona and the poem's lyrical hero. As a rule, such distinctions are quite meaningless, if only because a lyrical hero is invariably an author's self-projection.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Art, Book, Hero

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• Bad literature is a form of treason.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Literature, Form, Treason

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• An object, after all, is what makes infinity private.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Infinity, Objects

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• Perhaps art is simply an organism's reaction against its retentive limitations.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Art, Reactions, Organisms

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• I am losing my Soviet citizenship, I do not cease to be a Russian poet. I believe that I will return. Poets always return in flesh or on paper.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Believe, Paper, Flesh

  Fuente: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I don't want to dive into that mud slide, which is what I consider the literary process.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Mud, Slides, Want

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• The fact that we are living does not mean we are not sick.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Mean, Sick, Doe

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• 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.

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  Organization, Literature, Irony

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• Every writing career starts as a personal quest for sainthood, for self-betterment. Sooner or later, and as a rule quite soon, a man discovers that his pen accomplishes a lot more than his soul.

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  Writing, Men, Self

  Joseph Brodsky (2011). “Less Than One: Selected Essays”, p.158, Penguin UK

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• Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Approach, Poetry Is, Productions

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• ...in the business of writing what one accumulates is not expertise but uncertainties. Which is but another name for craft.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Writing, Names, Crafts

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• If one's fated to be born in Caesar's Empire, let him live aloof, provincial, by the seashore.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Empires, Born, Seashore

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• In the end, like the Almighty Himself, we make everything in our image, for want of a more reliable model; our artifacts tell more about ourselves than our confessions.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Want, Confession, Almighty

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• What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Life, Long, Should

  Joseph Brodsky, “May 24, 1980”

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• The government, the state, they're just objects of jokes rather than serious consideration. I can't possibly take them seriously.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Government, Serious, Consideration

  "El arte de la oscuridad de Joseph Brodsky". www.washingtonpost.com. 23 de octubre de 1987.

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• After having exhausted all the arguments on behalf of evil, one utters the creed's dictums with nostalgia rather than with fervor.

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  Evil, Nostalgia, Exhausted

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• In general, in America, every discourse in literature in 15 minutes degenerates into a conversation about ethics, morality and this and that. The Holocaust and the consequences of it. Well, I find it terribly boring, predictable and unimportant, because what matters about literature is esthetic achievement.

  Joseph Brodsky

  America, What Matters, Achievement

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• I'm 100 percent Jewish by blood, but by education I'm nothing. By affiliation I'm nothing.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Blood, Affiliation, Percent

  "El arte de la oscuridad de Joseph Brodsky". www.washingtonpost.com. 23 de octubre de 1987.

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• In Russia, the moment a person opens his mouth you know where he's from. There's the uniformity of experience of an individual in Russia. When you're about 7 years old you get into school and you get put in this factory or this bureaucracy or whatever. The options are computable. Here it's tremendously diverse.

  Joseph Brodsky

  School, Russia, Years

  "El arte de la oscuridad de Joseph Brodsky". www.washingtonpost.com. 23 de octubre de 1987.

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• Poetry is not only the most concise way of conveying the human experience; it also offers the highest possible standards for any linguistic operation.

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  Art, Poetry, Way

  Joseph Brodsky (2011). “On Grief And Reason: Essays”, p.106, Penguin UK

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• I'm neither Catholic not Protestant. Protestant sounds good but I don't think I am.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Thinking, Catholic, Sound

  "El arte de la oscuridad de Joseph Brodsky". www.washingtonpost.com. 23 de octubre de 1987.

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• A language is a more ancient and inevitable thing than any state.

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  Language, Ancient, States

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