不知怎地,我无法把人和写作二者分割开来。如果我只是喜欢某个人的写作,而不是喜欢那个人,就等于什么也没有发生。我想说的是,如果一个人写得不错,而其人很可怕,我会是第一个寻找证据证实其可怕的人。——约瑟夫·布罗茨基一般地谈论诗歌与人,已经变得越来越困难,这首 Somehow, I can not separate people from writing. If I just like someone’s writing, not like that person, it does not happen. What I want to say is that if a person is well-written and his person is horrible, I will be the first one to look for evidence to prove that he is terrible. - It has become more and more difficult for Joseph Brodsky to talk about poetry and people generally.