Cannot Quote by Joseph Brodsky Download Open image “You cannot cover a ruin with a page of 'Pravda.'” — Joseph Brodsky ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cannot Cover Page Ruin You
A ruin should always be protected but never repaired - thus may we witness full the lingering legacies of the past. — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
You will turn over many a futile new leaf till you learn we must all write on scratched-out pages. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A ruin is not just something that happened long ago to someone else; its history is that of us all, the transience of power,… — George Schaller Copy Share Image
“It's not really much good tearing out a page because you can see the place where it's been torn. [...] You can pull a… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
You can get away with stuff in a one-page story that you can't get away with in a book. — Joel Stein Copy Share Image
If you leave anyone with a undone page, someone who came prepared will finish it. — Rasheed Bryant Copy Share Image
“You're ruining that book!" He pointed to the page I'd torn out. "That's a perfectly good book!" Holding his gaze, I reached down and… — Kate Avery Ellison Copy Share Image
As I've explained to my wife many times, you have to kill your wife or mistress to get on the front page of the… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Just remember, you must know everything well before you can know what to discard. You must cover pages with material you will not finally… — Dorothy Bryant 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
The United States cannot and should not discriminate on the basis of religion. The free exercise of religion is at the very heart of… — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
Racism is a cancer. You cannot ignore it and it'll go away. If you ignore cancer, it simply metastasizes and consumes the whole body. — Daryl Davis Copy Share Image
The book is not simply the object that one holds in one's hands, and it cannot remain within the little parallelpiped that contains it:… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Nothing is more private than a woman's body; it is her physical, emotional, and moral citadel. She cannot be free at all if she… — Lewis B. Smedes Copy Share Image
Visaaranai' reflects a stark reality from which you cannot shut yourself out: that is its success. — Vetrimaaran Copy Share Image
When you put more than a million kids in school, you take a plane today and go to Haiti, you cannot see the results.… — Michel Martelly Copy Share Image
Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The Brazilians are amazing in their nature. You cannot describe it; you must feel that warmth when you're around them to understand. — Henrikh Mkhitaryan Copy Share Image
The two things you cannot do effectively on stage are pray and copulate. — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
Liberty does not exist where rights are on one side and power on the other. To be liberty, rights must be armed with vital… — Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II Copy Share Image
The reason I fight is to provide for my family, and I cannot risk having that taken away. — Robert Whittaker Copy Share Image
