Quote by Joseph Brodsky Download Open image ““A glance leaves an imprint on anything it's dwelt on.”” — Joseph Brodsky ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Some things are not always what they appear to be. Your thoughts lead you as far as the eyes can see.” — Laqueisha Malone Copy Share Image
“for the eye sees not itself, but by reflection, by some other things.” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Just be sure that you observe carefully what wells up within you and place that above everything that you notice around you.” — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“You can stare right at something and not see what lies beneath the surface.” — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“It is very important to carefully observe the things we see before we judge. Things aren't always as they appear.” — Ellen J. Barrier Copy Share Image
“Nothing appears on them by chance or simply because it looks pretty.” — Carina Axelsson Copy Share Image
“Once in a while you can get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It was nothing that would hawe seemed odd from the outside, looking in, or drawn attention unless you were really, truly staring at it.” — Alexandra Bracken Copy Share Image
“Would it perturb you to see things as they are? To gaze at the world tranquilly and accept responsibility for your gaze, whatever it… — Jean Genet Copy Share Image
“There is no way to know for certain what lurks in the shadowed corners of the mind.” — Renee Ahdieh Copy Share Image
As long as the state permits itself to interfere in the affairs of literature, literature has the right to interfere with the affairs of… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
For some odd reason, the expression 'death of a poet' always sounds somewhat more concrete than 'life of a poet.' — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
A poet is a combination of an instrument and a human being in one person, with the former gradually taking over the latter. The… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
On the whole, love comes with the speed of light; separation, with that of sound. — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
“In the business of writing, what one accumulates is not experience but uncertainties.” — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
I haven't shifted language. I'm writing in English because I like it. I'm a sucker for the language, but the good old poems I'm… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
Perhaps the best proof of the Almighty's existence is that we never know when we are to die. — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
I grew up in the sort of cultural milieu that always regarded conversations about the political discourse as tremendously low-brow. — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
“What gets left of a man amounts to a part. To his spoken part. To a part of speech” — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
“The instinctive preference was to read rather than to act. No wonder our actual lives were more or less a shambles” — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
Americans have been tremendously fortunate in poetry, regarding both the quantity and quality of poetry produced. Unfortunately, it remains in schools and universities; it… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image