Escape the victim status! Joseph Brodsky's famous speech
Escape the victim status!
Respect life with its charms and difficulties
Excerpts from Joseph Brodsky's famous speech to the graduates of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor Stadium in December 1988:
1. Try to expand your vocabulary and treat it like your bank account. Give it a lot of attention and try to accumulate dividends. It's not meant to boost your eloquence in the bedroom or on the road to professional success, nor to turn you into a worldly savant—though it will eventually become that.
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