Joseph Brodsky

For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language.

-Joseph Brodsky

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

-Joseph Brodsky

beauty
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

change
Man is what he reads.

-Joseph Brodsky

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

-Joseph Brodsky

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

-Joseph Brodsky

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

-Joseph Brodsky

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

-Joseph Brodsky

history
For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language.

-Joseph Brodsky

patriotism
Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production.

-Joseph Brodsky

poetry
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

work

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