Joseph Brodsky Explains Perfectly How to Deal With Critics and Detractors in Your Life
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Joseph Brodsky Explains Perfectly How to Deal With Critics and Detractors in Your Life
Poet and writer Joseph Brodsky on how to deal with the critics, detractors, and negative influences in your life:
“Try not to pay attention to those who will try to make life miserable for you. There will be a lot of those — in the official capacity as well as the self-appointed. Suffer them if you can’t escape them, but once you have steered clear... See more
“Try not to pay attention to those who will try to make life miserable for you. There will be a lot of those — in the official capacity as well as the self-appointed. Suffer them if you can’t escape them, but once you have steered clear... See more
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Polymath and writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on dealing with critics:
"Against criticism we can neither protect nor defend ourselves; we must act in despite of it, and gradually it resigns itself to this."
"Against criticism we can neither protect nor defend ourselves; we must act in despite of it, and gradually it resigns itself to this."
3-2-1: On feeling foolish, the importance of dreams, and respecting others
Nearly three decades after he mentored Merwin, Berryman would encapsulate his advice to young writers:
I would recommend the cultivation of extreme indifference to both praise and blame because praise will lead you to vanity, and blame will lead you to self-pity, and both are bad for writers.