Author: Joseph Brodsky

Quotes

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

Bad politics make for bad morals.

Bad politics make for bad morals.

- 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

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

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

- Joseph Brodsky

Time can be an enemy or a friend.

Time can be an enemy or a friend.

- Joseph Brodsky

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

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

- 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

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

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

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