Well, one hopes that if you&#39;re really related to the core of your particular culture, you have profound commitments to it, and that you are aware of how much you can strain it before you do violence to its essential nature.

startling—the Romans themselves never read silently, but always aloud; they regarded language as speaking and listening, and viewed writing as merely a convenient means of recording communications spoken and heard.

Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.

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

Written By Joseph Brodsky

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