Best Joseph Brodsky Sayings
- What concerns me is that man, unable to articulate, to express himself adequately, reverts to action. Since the vocabulary of action is limited, as it… Act
- Judge: And what is your occupation in general? Brodsky: Poet, poet-translator. Judge: And who recognized you to be a poet? Who put you in the… Attempt
- The Constitution doesn't mention rain. Constitution
- Out of Dostoevsky: Kafka. Out of Tolstoy: Margaret Mitchell. (in conversation, explaining his dislike for Tolstoy) Conversation
- If one's fated to be born in Caesar's Empire, let him live aloof, provincial, by the seashore... Aloof
- Because every book of art, be it a poem or a cupola, is understandably a self-portrait of its author, we won't strain ourselves too hard… Art
- There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. Book
- By failing to read or listen to poets, society dooms itself to inferior modes of articulation, those of the politician, the salesman, or the charlatan.… Animal