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
files ifs
Every life has a file, if you will.
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.
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...
boredom trying infinity
Boredom is your window on the properties of time that one tends to ignore to the likely peril of one's mental equilibrium. It is your window on time's infinity. Once this window opens, don't try to shut it; on the contrary, throw it wide open.
mustache east green
The delirium and horror of the East. The dusty catastrophe of Asia. Green only on the banner of the Prophet. Nothing grows here except mustaches.