Joseph Brodsky
Quotes by Joseph Brodsky
For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language.
— Joseph Brodsky
What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.
— 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
Man is what he reads.
— Joseph Brodsky
It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything.
— Joseph Brodsky
Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.
— Joseph Brodsky
The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie.
— Joseph Brodsky
Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production.
— Joseph Brodsky
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