Belongs Quote by Joseph Brodsky Download Open image “One belongs to one's language as a writer.” — Joseph Brodsky ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Belongs Language Writer Writing
A writer can have only one language, if language is going to mean anything to him. — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
There's a whole language out there, and one's role as a writer is to stumble around in it. — Ciaran Carson Copy Share Image
A writer is a tool of the language rather than the other way around. — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
You cannot write in more than one language. Words don't come out as well. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
… the truest writers are those who see language not as a linguistic process but as a living element… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
No instance exists of a person's writing two language perfectly. That will always appear to be his native language which was most familiar to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Not everyone who knows how to write can be a writer. Not everyone who knows two languages can be a translator.” — Nataly Kelly Copy Share Image
I believe that each writer must decide in which language he or she is most comfortable. — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
A writer should care about one thing - the language. To write well - that is his duty. That is his only duty. — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
As long as the state permits itself to interfere in the affairs of literature, literature has the right to interfere with the affairs of… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
For some odd reason, the expression 'death of a poet' always sounds somewhat more concrete than 'life of a poet.' — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
A poet is a combination of an instrument and a human being in one person, with the former gradually taking over the latter. The… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
On the whole, love comes with the speed of light; separation, with that of sound. — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
“In the business of writing, what one accumulates is not experience but uncertainties.” — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
I haven't shifted language. I'm writing in English because I like it. I'm a sucker for the language, but the good old poems I'm… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
Perhaps the best proof of the Almighty's existence is that we never know when we are to die. — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
I grew up in the sort of cultural milieu that always regarded conversations about the political discourse as tremendously low-brow. — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
“What gets left of a man amounts to a part. To his spoken part. To a part of speech” — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
“The instinctive preference was to read rather than to act. No wonder our actual lives were more or less a shambles” — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
Americans have been tremendously fortunate in poetry, regarding both the quantity and quality of poetry produced. Unfortunately, it remains in schools and universities; it… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
The more help a person has in his garden, the less it belongs to him. — W. H. Davies Copy Share Image
“Everything on this earth belongs to God and therefore the more your dedication draws you closer to him, the more you will draw closer… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
One's own self-worth is tied to the worth of the community to which one belongs, which is intimately connected to humanity in general. What… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Liquid helium belongs to a class of fluids known as quantum fluids, as distinct from classical fluids. — David Lee Copy Share Image
We ought to get out of the judging business. We should leave it up to God to determine who belongs in one arena or… — Tony Campolo Copy Share Image
“The holiness of God makes Him the possessor of all earthly wealth, which belongs to Him forever” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
To me, wrestling is therapy. No matter how bad my personal situation is, when I step into the ring, all my troubles disappear. My… — Eddie Guerrero Copy Share Image
In Delicious's case, it's a great brand that belongs in Silicon Valley. — Chad Hurley Copy Share Image
