Best quotes by Joseph Brodsky on Language

Checkout quotes by Joseph Brodsky on Language

• ‟ Every individual ought to know at least one poet from cover to cover: if not as a guide through the world, then as a yardstick for the language.

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• ‟ The real biographies of poets are like those of birds, almost identical - their data are in the way they sound. A poet's biography lies in his twists of language, in his meters, rhymes, and metaphors.

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• ‟ A writer is a tool of the language rather than the other way around.

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

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• ‟ Because civilizations are finite, in the life of each of them there comes a moment when the center ceases to hold. What keeps them at such times from disintegration is not legions but language.

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• ‟ A writer should care about one thing - the language. To write well - that is his duty. That is his only duty.

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