Quotes by : Joseph Brodsky

[T]he accumulation of things not spelled out, not properly articulated, may result in neurosis.

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

Try not to pay attention to those who will try to make life miserable for you. There will be a lot of....

How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

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

Of all the parts of your body, be most vigilant over your index finger, for it is blame-thirsty. A pointed....

...in the business of writing what one accumulates is not expertise but uncertainties. Which is but another....

Anyone who regards poetry as an entertainment, as a 'read,' commits an anthropological crime, in the....

One of the worst things that can happen to an artist is to perceive himself as the owner of his art,....

Tyranny will make an entire population into readers of poetry.