Quotes by Joseph Brodsky

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

#Joseph Brodsky

How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

#Joseph Brodsky

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

#Joseph Brodsky

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

#Joseph Brodsky

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

#Joseph Brodsky

After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if...

#Joseph Brodsky

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

#Joseph Brodsky

Bad literature is a form of treason.

#Literature

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

#Literature

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

#Writers

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

#Life, #Sad