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# Brodsky on addiction to scrolling reels and TikToks, in his Nobel lecture:
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/brodskii-o-zavisimosti-ot-prosmotra-rilz-i-tiktokov-v-svoei-nobelevskoi-lektsii/
- Published: 2024-07-04T12:49:03.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-01T05:33:19.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Books, People, Humour

*One who writes a poem writes it above all because verse is a colossal accelerator of consciousness, of thinking, of one's sense of the universe. Having experienced this acceleration once, a person is no longer capable of abandoning the chance of repeating this experience; he falls into dependence on this process, the way one falls into dependence on \*\*\* or alcohol. A person who finds himself in such dependence on language is, I suppose, what is called a poet.*