Author: Joseph Brodsky

Quotes

I was fortunate enough to write about things I really love, and love can be very analytic.

I was fortunate enough to write about things I really love, and love can be very analytic.

- Joseph Brodsky

I belong to Russian literature, but I am an American citizen, and I think it's the best possible combination.

I belong to Russian literature, but I am an American citizen, and I think it's the best possible combination.

- Joseph Brodsky

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

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

- Joseph Brodsky

Good style in prose is always hostage to the precision, speed, and laconic intensity of poetic diction.

Good style in prose is always hostage to the precision, speed, and laconic intensity of poetic diction.

- Joseph Brodsky

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

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

- Joseph Brodsky

I like the idea of isolation. I like the reality of it. You realize what you are... not that the knowledge is inevitably rewarding.

I like the idea of isolation. I like the reality of it. You realize what you are... not that the knowledge is inevitably rewarding.

- Joseph Brodsky

This assumption that the blue collar crowd is not supposed to read it, or a farmer in his overalls is not to read poetry, seems to be dangerous if not tragic.

This assumption that the blue collar crowd is not supposed to read it, or a farmer in his overalls is not to read poetry, seems to be dangerous if not tragic.

- Joseph Brodsky

Bad politics make for bad morals.

Bad politics make for bad morals.

- Joseph Brodsky

It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything.

It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything.

- Joseph Brodsky

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