Quotes by Joseph Brodsky

Joseph Brodsky

Joseph Brodsky

Russian-born American Poet, Critic

Lived from: 1940 - 1996

Category: Media | Poets (Contemporary) Country: FlagRussia

Born: 24 may 1940 Died: 28 january 1996

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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • How delightful to find a friend in everyone.
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  • 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.
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  • Racism? But isn't it only a form of misanthropy?
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  • The poetic notion of infinity is far greater than that which is sponsored by any creed.
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  • The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie.
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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.
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  • There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
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  • What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.
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  • What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.
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What are the most famous quotes from Joseph Brodsky?

The two most famous quotes from Joseph Brodsky are:

  • "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."
  • "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."

When did Joseph Brodsky live?

Joseph Brodsky was born in 1940 and died in the year 1996.