Joseph Brodsky citations

Joseph Brodsky est un poète russe né à Léningrad le 24 mai 1940 et mort à New York le 28 janvier 1996. Il est lauréat du prix Nobel de littérature en 1987. Wikipedia  

✵ 24. mai 1940 – 28. janvier 1996   •   Autres noms జోసెఫ్ బ్రాడ్స్కీ, Brodskiy Iosif Aleksandrovich
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Joseph Brodsky: Citations en anglais

“The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even — if you will — eccentricity.”

"A Commencement Address" (1984), delivered at Williams College; As quoted in: Robert Inchausti (2014) Thinking through Thomas Merton. p. 110
Contexte: The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even — if you will — eccentricity. That is, something that can't be feigned, faked, imitated; something even a seasoned imposter couldn't be happy with. Something, in other words, that can't be shared, like your own skin: not even by a minority. Evil is a sucker for solidity. It always goes for big numbers, for confident granite, for ideological purity, for drilled armies and balanced sheets. Its proclivity for such things has to do with its innate insecurity, but this realization, again, is of small comfort when Evil triumphs.

“The formula for prison is a lack of space counterbalanced by a surplus of time.”

Joseph Brodsky livre Less Than One: Selected Essays

Source: Less Than One: Selected Essays (1986), p. 28
Contexte: The formula for prison is a lack of space counterbalanced by a surplus of time. This is what really bothers you, that you can't win. Prison is lack of alternatives, and the telescopic predictability of the future is what drives you crazy.

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