Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown.

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  I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul

• Joseph Brodsky:

  Life - the way it really is - is a battle not between Bad and Good but between Bad and Worse.

• 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:

  Man is what he reads.

• Joseph Brodsky:

  This is the generation whose first cry of life was the Hungarian uprising.

• Joseph Brodsky:

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• Joseph Brodsky:

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• Joseph Brodsky:

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