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Author - Joseph Brodsky
Quotes by : Joseph Brodsky
prose
In general, dividing literature into prose and poetry began with the appearance of prose, for only in....
past
Whether pleasant or dismal, the past is always a safe territory, if only because it is already experienced,....
Art
One of the worst things that can happen to an artist is to perceive himself as the owner of his art,....
grief
... Now to die of griefwould mean, I'm afraid, to die belatedly, while latecomersare unwelcome, particularly....
man
Man is what he reads.
Everything
It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything.
Goal
If what distinguishes us from other species is speech, then poetry, which is the supreme linguistic operation,....
Farmer
This assumption that the blue collar crowd is not supposed to read it, or a farmer in his overalls is....
cynicism
Life—the way it really is—is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse
Ladder
The charge frequently leveled against poetry - that it is difficult, obscure, hermetic and whatnot -....
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