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

Joseph Brodsky

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

Joseph Brodsky

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

Man is what he reads.

Joseph Brodsky

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

Joseph Brodsky

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

Joseph Brodsky

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

Joseph Brodsky

The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie.

Joseph Brodsky

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

Joseph Brodsky

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

Joseph Brodsky

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.

Joseph Brodsky