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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.

If a poet has any obligation toward society, it is to write well. Being in the minority, he has no other choice. Failing this duty, he sinks into oblivion. Society, on the other hand, has no obligation toward the poet. A majority by definition, society thinks of itself as having other options than reading verses, no matter how well written. Its failure to do so results in its sinking to that level of locution at which society falls easy prey to a demagogue or a tyrant. This is society's own equivalent of oblivion. - Joseph Brodsky Quotes

If a poet has any obligation toward society, it is to write well. Being in the minority, he has no other choice. Failing this duty, he sinks into oblivion. Society, on the other hand, has no obligation toward the poet. A majority by definition, society thinks of itself as having other options than reading verses, no matter how well written. Its failure to do so results in its sinking to that level of locution at which society falls easy prey to a demagogue or a tyrant. This is society's own equivalent of oblivion.

Poetry And Poets

What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness. - Joseph Brodsky Quotes

What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

If there is any substitute for love, it is memory - Joseph Brodsky Quotes

If there is any substitute for love, it is memory

It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything. - Joseph Brodsky Quotes

It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything.

I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul when a man who looks at himself is so ashamed that he tries to make some sort of change - within himself, not on the outside. - Joseph Brodsky Quotes

I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul when a man who looks at himself is so ashamed that he tries to make some sort of change - within himself, not on the outside.

Life is a game with many rules but no referee. One learns how to play it more by watching it than by consulting any book, including the holy book. Small wonder, then, that so many play dirty, that so few win, that so many lose. - Joseph Brodsky Quotes

Life is a game with many rules but no referee. One learns how to play it more by watching it than by consulting any book, including the holy book. Small wonder, then, that so many play dirty, that so few win, that so many lose.

Racism? But isn't it only a form of misanthropy? - Joseph Brodsky Quotes

Racism? But isn't it only a form of misanthropy?

Race And Racism Racism

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. - 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.

Writers And Writing

Bad literature is a form of treason. - Joseph Brodsky Quotes

Bad literature is a form of treason.

American Poet Treason

[Robert] Frost's triumph was not being at John Kennedy's inauguration ceremony, but the day when he put the last period on

[Robert] Frost's triumph was not being at John Kennedy's inauguration ceremony, but the day when he put the last period on ""West-Running Brook.""

How delightful to find a friend in everyone. - Joseph Brodsky Quotes

How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production. - Joseph Brodsky Quotes

Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production.

American Poet Life

Man is what he reads. - Joseph Brodsky Quotes

Man is what he reads.

American Poet Man

Who included me among the ranks of the human race? - Joseph Brodsky Quotes

Who included me among the ranks of the human race?

American Poet 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. - Joseph Brodsky Quotes

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.

This is the generation whose first cry of life was the Hungarian uprising. - Joseph Brodsky Quotes

This is the generation whose first cry of life was the Hungarian uprising.

American Poet Life

What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence. - Joseph Brodsky Quotes

What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Life

The poetic notion of infinity is far greater than that which is sponsored by any creed. - Joseph Brodsky Quotes

The poetic notion of infinity is far greater than that which is sponsored by any creed.

American Poet Infinity

For the poet the credo or doctrine is not the point of arrival but is, on the contrary, the point of departure for the metaphysical journey. - Joseph Brodsky Quotes

For the poet the credo or doctrine is not the point of arrival but is, on the contrary, the point of departure for the metaphysical journey.

American Poet Doctrine

A language is a more ancient and inevitable thing than any state. - Joseph Brodsky Quotes

A language is a more ancient and inevitable thing than any state.

American Poet Language

[Robert] Frost's triumph was not being at John Kennedy's inauguration ceremony, but the day when he put the last period on

[Robert] Frost's triumph was not being at John Kennedy's inauguration ceremony, but the day when he put the last period on "West-Running Brook."

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.

Evil

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.

In the works of the better poets you get the sensation that they're not talking to people any more, or to some seraphical creature. What they're doing is simply talking back to the language itself --as beauty, sensuality, wisdom, irony --those aspects of language of which the poet is a clear mirror. Poetry is not an art or a branch of art, it's something more. If what distinguishes us from other species is speech, then poetry, which is the supreme linguistic operation, is our anthropological, indeed genetic, goal. Anyone who regards poetry as an entertainment, as a ''read,'' commits an anthropological crime, in the first place, against himself. - Joseph Brodsky Quotes

In the works of the better poets you get the sensation that they're not talking to people any more, or to some seraphical creature. What they're doing is simply talking back to the language itself --as beauty, sensuality, wisdom, irony --those aspects of language of which the poet is a clear mirror. Poetry is not an art or a branch of art, it's something more. If what distinguishes us from other species is speech, then poetry, which is the supreme linguistic operation, is our anthropological, indeed genetic, goal. Anyone who regards poetry as an entertainment, as a ''read,'' commits an anthropological crime, in the first place, against himself.

Poetry And Poets

Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family. - Joseph Brodsky Quotes

Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.

American Firstlady American Poet

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