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.

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

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

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

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

Man is what he reads.

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.

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

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