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A man is, after all, what he loves. But one always feels cornered when asked to explain why one loves this or that person, and what for. In order to explain it - which inevitably amounts to explaining oneself - one has to try to love the object of one's attention a little bit less. - Joseph Brodsky
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Anyone who regards poetry as an entertainment, as a 'read,' commits an anthropological crime, in the first place against himself. - Joseph Brodsky
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I like the idea of isolation. I like the reality of it. You realize what you are... not that the knowledge is inevitably rewarding. - Joseph Brodsky
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Tyranny will make an entire population into readers of poetry. - Joseph Brodsky
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On the whole, books are indeed less finite than ourselves. Even the worst among them outlast their authors - mainly because they occupy a smaller amount of physical space than those who penned them. Often they sit on the shelves absorbing dust long after the writer himself has turned into a handful of dust. - Joseph Brodsky
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Prison is essentially a shortage of space made up for by a surplus of time; to an inmate, both are palpable. - Joseph Brodsky
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By failing to read or listen to poets, society dooms itself to inferior modes of articulation: those of the politician, the salesman or the charlatan... In other words, it forfeits its own evolutionary potential. - Joseph Brodsky
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Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production. - Joseph Brodsky
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Contrary to popular belief, the outskirts are not where the world ends - they are precisely where it begins to unfurl. - Joseph Brodsky
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I belong to the Russian language. As to the state, from my point of view, the measure of a writer's patriotism is not oaths from a high platform, but how he writes in the language of the people among whom he lives. - Joseph Brodsky
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Man is what he reads. - Joseph Brodsky
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In terms of freedom, America doesn't invite any comparison to Russia. It would be silly to make one. Every line that I care to write, I can have printed. There is no point to even talk about degrees. - Joseph Brodsky
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No matter how daring or cautious you may choose to be, in the course of your life, you are bound to come into direct physical contact with what's known as Evil. I mean here not a property of the gothic novel but, to say the least, a palpable social reality that you in no way can control. - Joseph Brodsky
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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
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Bad literature is a form of treason. - Joseph Brodsky
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No man-made system is perfect, and the system of oppression is no exception. It is subject to fatigue, to cracks, which you are the likelier to discover the longer your term. - Joseph Brodsky
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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
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I remember myself, age five, sitting on a porch overlooking a very muddy road. The day was rainy. I was wearing rubber boots, yellow - no, not yellow, green - and for all I know, I'm still there. - Joseph Brodsky
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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
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Venice is eternity itself. - Joseph Brodsky
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What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness. - Joseph Brodsky
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How delightful to find a friend in everyone. - Joseph Brodsky
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Life - the way it really is - is a battle not between Bad and Good but between Bad and Worse. - Joseph Brodsky
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For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language. - Joseph Brodsky
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Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family. - Joseph Brodsky
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#Family
#Human
#Saint Patrick's Day
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Who included me among the ranks of the human race? - Joseph Brodsky
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It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything. - Joseph Brodsky
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