“After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.”
– Joseph Brodsky
“Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production.”
– Joseph Brodsky
“For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language.”
– Joseph Brodsky
“The real history of consciousness starts with one’s first lie.”
– Joseph Brodsky
“Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.”
– Joseph Brodsky
“Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.”
– Joseph Brodsky
“It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything.”
– Joseph Brodsky
“Man is what he reads.”
– Joseph Brodsky
“I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul when a man who looks at himself is so ashamed that he tries to make some sort of change – within himself, not on the outside.”
– Joseph Brodsky
“What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.”
– Joseph Brodsky
“For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language.”
– Joseph Brodsky