Author: Joseph Brodsky

Quotes

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

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

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

- 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

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

For boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson of your life - the lesson of your utter insignificance.

For boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson of your life - the lesson of your utter insignificance.

- Joseph Brodsky

Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.

Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.

- 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

Time can be an enemy or a friend.

Time can be an enemy or a friend.

- 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

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