“Though we can condemn … the persecution of writers, acts of censorship, the burning of books, we are powerless when it comes to [the worst crime against literature]: that of not reading the books. For that … a person pays with his whole life; … a nation … pays with its history.”
- Poet Joseph Brodsky, 1987 Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech (via annabelsmith)
- Poet Joseph Brodsky, 1987 Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech (via annabelsmith)