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

Time can be an enemy or a friend.

Time can be an enemy or a friend.

- Joseph Brodsky

Bad politics make for bad morals.

Bad politics make for bad morals.

- Joseph Brodsky

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

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

- 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

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

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

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

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

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

- Joseph Brodsky

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