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Joseph Brodsky Quotes

«Every writing career starts as a personal quest for sainthood, for self-betterment. Sooner or later, and as a rule quite soon, a man discovers that his pen accomplishes a lot more than his soul.»
«It would be enough for me to have the system of a jury of twelve versus the system of one judge as a basis for preferring the U.S. to the Soviet Union. I would prefer the country you can leave to the country you cannot.»
«Bad literature is a form of treason.»
Author: Joseph Brodsky (Poet, Writer) | About: Literature | Keywords: treason
«How delightful to find a friend in everyone.»
«Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production.»
Author: Joseph Brodsky (Poet, Writer) | About: Poetry | Keywords: production, typographical
«Man is what he reads.»
Author: Joseph Brodsky (Poet, Writer) | Keywords: reads
«Who included me among the ranks of the human race?»
«After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.»
Author: Joseph Brodsky (Poet, Writer) | Keywords: fake, had better
«This is the generation whose first cry of life was the Hungarian uprising.»
«What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.»

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