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The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even / if you will / eccentricity. That is, something that can't be feigned, faked, imitated; something even a seasoned imposter couldn't be happy with. - Joseph Brodsky Quotes

The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even / if you will / eccentricity. That is, something that can't be feigned, faked, imitated; something even a seasoned imposter couldn't be happy with.

Twentieth-century Russian literature has produced nothing special except perhaps one novel and two stories by Andrei Platonov, who ended his days sweeping streets. - Joseph Brodsky Quotes

Twentieth-century Russian literature has produced nothing special except perhaps one novel and two stories by Andrei Platonov, who ended his days sweeping streets.

The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie. - Joseph Brodsky Quotes

The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie.

American Poet Consciousness

Every individual ought to know at least one poet from cover to cover: if not as a guide through the world, then as a yardstick for the language. - Joseph Brodsky Quotes

Every individual ought to know at least one poet from cover to cover: if not as a guide through the world, then as a yardstick for the language.

Life - the way it really is - is a battle not between Bad and Good but between Bad and Worse - Joseph Brodsky Quotes

Life - the way it really is - is a battle not between Bad and Good but between Bad and Worse

A poet is a combination of an instrument and a human being in one person, with the former gradually taking over the latter. The sensation of this takeover is responsible for timbre; the realization of it, for destiny. - Joseph Brodsky Quotes

A poet is a combination of an instrument and a human being in one person, with the former gradually taking over the latter. The sensation of this takeover is responsible for timbre; the realization of it, for destiny.

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. - Joseph Brodsky Quotes

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.

For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language. - Joseph Brodsky Quotes

For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language.

American Poet Attitude

For boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson of your life -- the lesson of your utter insignificance. - Joseph Brodsky Quotes

For boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson of your life -- the lesson of your utter insignificance.

No matter under what circumstances you leave it, home does not cease to be home. No matter how you lived there-well or poorly. - Joseph Brodsky Quotes

No matter under what circumstances you leave it, home does not cease to be home. No matter how you lived there-well or poorly.

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