Joseph Brodsky

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

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

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

Man is what he reads…

The real history of consciousness starts with one’s first lie…

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

After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if…

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

I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of…