Snobbery? But it's only a form of despair.

Quote by Joseph Brodsky

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Who included me among the ranks of the human race?

Who included me among the ranks of the human race?

For boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most...

For boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most...

Life is a game with many rules but no referee. One learns how to play...

Life is a game with many rules but no referee. One learns how to play...

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

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

This is the generation whose first cry of life was the Hungarian uprising.

This is the generation whose first cry of life was the Hungarian uprising.

It would be enough for me to have the system of a jury of twelve...

It would be enough for me to have the system of a jury of twelve...

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

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

How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

For the poet the credo or doctrine is not the point of arrival but is,...

For the poet the credo or doctrine is not the point of arrival but is,...

A language is a more ancient and inevitable thing than any state.

A language is a more ancient and inevitable thing than any state.

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

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

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

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

I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of...

I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of...

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

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

Twentieth-century Russian literature has produced nothing special except perhaps one novel and two stories by...

Twentieth-century Russian literature has produced nothing special except perhaps one novel and two stories by...

Bad literature is a form of treason.

Bad literature is a form of treason.

Bad literature is a form of treason.

Bad literature is a form of treason.

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

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

Every individual ought to know at least one poet from cover to cover: if not...

Every individual ought to know at least one poet from cover to cover: if not...

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

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