Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographi… — Quoted

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

Joseph Brodsky · Poetry

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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.

Change

Joseph Brodsky

Man is what he reads.

Education

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.

Work

Joseph Brodsky

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

Attitude