Judge: What is your profession? Brodsky: I write poems, translate. I take it that . . . Judge: Have you steady work? Brodsky: I write poems. Judge: That doesn’t interest us. What interests us is with what institution you are connected. Brodsky: None. Judge: And who recognized you as a poet? Brodsky: No one. And who placed me among the human race? Prosecutor: Can one live from the money you earn? And doesn’t one need shoes and suits? Brodsky: I have one suit, an old one, but still a suit. I don’t need a second one. I have worked. I have written poems . . . Building Communism doesn’t only mean standing at a work bench or plowing the earth. There’s also spiritual labor. Judge: Forget the big words.
Trial of Joseph Brodsky
“And I told him that a man's life is always dealing with permanence -
that the most dangerous kind of irresponsibility is to think of your
doings as temporary. That, anyhow, is what I've tried to keep before
myself. What you do on the earth, the earth makes permanent.”
EL ESPECTRO DEL TRUMPISMO RECORRE EUROPA-Y EL MUNDO (THE SPECTER OF TRUMPISM): Trump says the US must take over the Panama Canal and Greenland as they are vital for US security - This may be a negotiation tactic to get ...
You can substitute "Europe" for "the World" and "Communism" for "Trumpism". And it makes sense today
A
specter is haunting Europe—the specter of Communism. All the powers of
old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this specter;
Pope and Czar, Metternich and Guizot, French radicals and German police
spies.
Where is the party in opposition that has not been decried
as Communistic by its opponents in power? Where the opposition that has
not hurled back the branding reproach of Communism, against the more
advanced opposition parties, as well as against its reactionary
adversaries?
Un fantasma recorre Europa: el fantasma del comunismo. Todas las fuerzas de la vieja Europa se han unido en santa cruzada para exorcizar a ese fantasma: el Papa y el zar, Metternich y Guizot, los radicales franceses y los espías de la policía Alemana.
¿Qué partido de oposición no ha sido motejado de comunista por sus adversarios en el Poder? ¿Qué partido de oposición, a su vez, no ha lanzado, tanto a los representantes más avanzados de la oposición como a sus enemigos reaccionarios, el acuñado reproche de comunista?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Communist_Manifesto
#atwar #germany https://t.co/MvyECSFWx2
— Guillermo Ruiz Zapatero (@ruiz_zapatero) November 7, 2024
PENSAR EN LA VIDA DE UN HOMBRE
En un tiempo que rompe
en pedazos todo alrededor,
cuando los hombres, sin voz
contra hombres ahítos de cosas,
se prenden fuego, parece
demasiado difícil y raro
pensar en la vida de un hombre
plantado completo en el mundo
en paz y en su lugar.
Pero habiendo pensando en ello
estoy más allá del tiempo
podría haber vendido mis manos
o vendido mi voz y mi mente
a los argumentos del poder
que va ciego contra
lo que ellos destruirían.
(Junio de 1967, traducción de Guillermo Ruiz)
In a time that breaks
in cutting pieces all around,
when men, voiceless
against thing-ridden men,
set themselves on fire, it seems
too difficult and rare
to think of the life of a man
grown whole in the world,
at peace and in place.
But having thought of it
I am beyond the time
I might have sold my hands
or sold my voice and mind
to the arguments of power
that go blind against
what they would destroy.
Y yo le dije que la vida de un hombre trata siempre con la permanencia-que la clase más peligrosa de irresponsabilidad es pensar de tus quehaceres como transitorios.Esto,de algún modo,es lo que he tratado de preservar ante mí mismo.Lo que haces sobre la tierra, la tierra lo hace permanente.
Wendell Berry (A place on Earth)
HDT (Carta a Mary Brown)
