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

Quote by Joseph Brodsky

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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...

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.

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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...

How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Bad literature is a form of treason.

Bad literature is a form of treason.

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

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

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...

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.

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...

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...

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

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

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.

Bad literature is a form of treason.

Bad literature is a form of treason.

Who included me among the ranks of the human race?

Who included me among the ranks of the human race?

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,...

Man is what he reads.

Man is what he reads.