Joseph Brodsky

• "For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language.“
• "What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.“
• "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.“
• "Man is what he reads.“
• "It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything.“
• "Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.“
• "Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.“
• "The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie.“
• "For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language.“
• "Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production.“
• "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.“

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