Quotes by : Joseph Brodsky

Americans have been tremendously fortunate in poetry, regarding both the quantity and quality of poetry....

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....

To translate poetry, one has to possess some art, at the very least the art of stylistic re-embodiment.....

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

If what distinguishes us from other species is speech, then poetry, which is the supreme linguistic operation,....

This assumption that the blue collar crowd is not supposed to read it, or a farmer in his overalls is....

Life—the way it really is—is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse

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

The more one reads poetry, the less tolerant one becomes of any sort of verbosity, be that in political....