Joseph Brodsky
Joseph Brodsky
Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky; 24 May 1940 – 28 January 1996) was a Russian and American poet and essayist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth24 May 1940
CountryUnited States of America
memory substitute
If there is any substitute for love, it is memory
dirty book winning
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.
files ifs
Every life has a file, if you will.
despair form snobbery
Snobbery? But it's only a form of despair.
uprising glowing firsts
This is the generation whose first cry of life was the Hungarian uprising.
infinity objects
An object, after all, is what makes infinity private.
beauty kings cities
What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.
infinity poetic creeds
The poetic notion of infinity is far greater than that which is sponsored by any creed.
empires born ifs
If one's fated to be born in Caesar's Empire, let him live aloof, provincial, by the seashore...
life-lesson blessing boredom
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.
russia use interest
What's happening in Russia is devoid of autobiographical interest for me. Maybe it's egocentric. Whatever it is, feel free to use it.
mud slides want
I don't want to dive into that mud slide, which is what I consider the literary process.
finding-yourself trying ridiculous
I'm not trying to be ridiculous or funny, but it was rather pleasant to find yourself in isolation, in solitary.
political lows conversation
I grew up in the sort of cultural milieu that always regarded conversations about the political discourse as tremendously low-brow.