19 Quotations by Joseph Brodsky
- 1. A language is a more ancient and inevitable thing than any state.

- 2. After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of ...

- 3. Bad literature is a form of treason.

- 4. Every writing career starts as a personal quest for sainthood, for self-betterment. Sooner or later, ...

- 5. For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language.

- 6. How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

- 7. I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul w ...

- 8. If a poet has any obligation toward society, it is to write well. Being in the minority, he has no o ...

- 9. In the works of the better poets you get the sensation that they're not talking to people any more, ...

- 10. It would be enough for me to have the system of a jury of twelve versus the system of one judge as a ...

- 11. Life is a game with many rules but no referee. One learns how to play it more by watching it than by ...

- 12. Life-the way it really is-is a battle not between Bad and Good but between Bad and Worse.

- 13. Racism? But isn't it only a form of misanthropy?

- 14. The poetic notion of infinity is far greater than that which is sponsored by any creed.

- 15. The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie.

- 16. The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, eve ...

- 17. There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

- 18. What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

- 19. What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

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