Quotes by : Joseph Brodsky

American poetry to me is a sort of relentless, nonstop sermon on human autonomy.

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

Try to embrace, or let yourself be embraced by, boredom and anguish, which anyhow are larger than you.....

In general, dividing literature into prose and poetry began with the appearance of prose, for only in....

I belong to the Russian language. As to the state, from my point of view, the measure of a writer's patriotism....

My idea is simply - is very simple - is that the books of poetry should be published in far greater volume....

[T]he longer you stay skeptical, doubtful, intellectually uncomfortable, the better it is for you.

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....

The charge frequently leveled against poetry - that it is difficult, obscure, hermetic and whatnot -....