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• Joseph Brodsky:

  My intention is to write poems. That's what I've been doing most of my life.

• Joseph Brodsky:

  Try not to pay attention to those who will try to make life miserable for you. There will be a lot

• Joseph Brodsky:

  I simply loved all my life; loved is too strong a word, but I had a tremendous sentiment, partly co

• Joseph Brodsky:

  English is the only interesting thing that's left in my life.

• Joseph Brodsky:

  Nothing convinces an artist more of the arbitrariness of the means to which he resorts to attain a

• Joseph Brodsky:

  I began to despise Lenin, even when I was in the first grade, not so much because of his political

• Joseph Brodsky:

  After the last line of a poem, nothing follows except literary criticism.

• Joseph Brodsky:

  A man is, after all, what he loves. But one always feels cornered when asked to explain why one lov

• Joseph Brodsky:

  It is almost a rule that the more complex a man is, the simpler his billing. A person with a retros

• Joseph Brodsky:

  The invention of ethical and political doctrines, which blossomed into our own social sciences, is