Joseph Brodsky quote: "Повезло и тебе: где еще, кроме разве что фотографии,<br /> ты пребудешь всегда без морщин, молода, весела, глумлива?<br /> Ибо время, столкнувшись с памятью, узнает о своем бесправии.<br /> Я курю в темноте и вдыхаю гнилье отлива."

The blue-collar is not supposed to read Horace, nor the farmer in his overalls Montale or Marvell. N...
JOSEPH BRODSKY

This assumption that the blue collar crowd is not supposed to read it, or a farmer in his overalls i...
JOSEPH BRODSKY

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
JOSEPH BRODSKY

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

What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.
JOSEPH BRODSKY

How delightful to find a friend in everyone.
JOSEPH BRODSKY

In sissy times, like these, one
JOSEPH BRODSKY

Every writing career starts as a personal quest for sainthood, for self-betterment. Sooner or later,...
JOSEPH BRODSKY

The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, eve...
JOSEPH BRODSKY

Racism? But isn't it only a form of misanthropy?
JOSEPH BRODSKY

The poetic notion of infinity is far greater than that which is sponsored by any creed.
JOSEPH BRODSKY

It would be enough for me to have the system of a jury of twelve versus the system of one judge as a...
JOSEPH BRODSKY

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

In the works of the better poets you get the sensation that they're not talking to people any more, ...
JOSEPH BRODSKY

If a poet has any obligation toward society, it is to write well. Being in the minority, he has no o...
JOSEPH BRODSKY

No matter under what circumstances you leave it, home does not cease to be home. No matter how you l...
JOSEPH BRODSKY

The one who writes a poem writes it above all because verse writing is an extraordinary accelerator ...
JOSEPH BRODSKY

I like the idea of isolation. I like the reality of it. You realize what you are... not that the kno...
JOSEPH BRODSKY

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

Snobbery? But it's only a form of despair.
JOSEPH BRODSKY

For the poet the credo or doctrine is not the point of arrival but is, on the contrary, the point of...
JOSEPH BRODSKY

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

One always pulls the trigger out of self-interest and quotes history to avoid responsibility or pang...
JOSEPH BRODSKY

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

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

Bad literature is a form of treason.
JOSEPH BRODSKY

The mechanics of love imply some sort of bridge between the sensual and the spiritual, sometimes to ...
JOSEPH BRODSKY

Good style in prose is always hostage to the precision, speed, and laconic intensity of poetic dicti...
JOSEPH BRODSKY

Time is water, and the Venetians conquered both by building a city on water, and framed time with th...
JOSEPH BRODSKY

No man-made system is perfect, and the system of oppression is no exception. It is subject to fatigu...
JOSEPH BRODSKY

Life is a game with many rules but no referee. One learns how to play it more by watching it than by...
JOSEPH BRODSKY

For boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson of your lif...
JOSEPH BRODSKY

Who included me among the ranks of the human race?
JOSEPH BRODSKY

The imprisoning of a writer is the same as the burning of a book.
JOSEPH BRODSKY

I remember myself, age five, sitting on a porch overlooking a very muddy road. The day was rainy. I ...
JOSEPH BRODSKY

Because civilizations are finite, in the life of each of them there comes a moment when the center c...
JOSEPH BRODSKY

Venice is eternity itself.
JOSEPH BRODSKY

I belong to the Russian language. As to the state, from my point of view, the measure of a writer...
JOSEPH BRODSKY

The real biographies of poets are like those of birds, almost identical - their data are in the way ...
JOSEPH BRODSKY

Man is what he reads.
JOSEPH BRODSKY

My idea is simply - is very simple - is that the books of poetry should be published in far greater ...
JOSEPH BRODSKY

Basically, it's hard for me to assess myself, a hardship not only prompted by the immodesty of t...
JOSEPH BRODSKY

The concept of historical necessity is the product of rational thought and arrived in Russia by the ...
JOSEPH BRODSKY

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

By failing to read or listen to poets, society dooms itself to inferior modes of articulation: those...
JOSEPH BRODSKY

I was fortunate enough to write about things I really love, and love can be very analytic.
JOSEPH BRODSKY

When you have those two languages - an analytic one like English and a synthetic, very sensual thing...
JOSEPH BRODSKY

Paperbacks of those we deem classics should be cheap and sold at supermarkets.
JOSEPH BRODSKY

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

After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of ...
JOSEPH BRODSKY

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

Bad literature . . . is a form of treason.
JOSEPH BRODSKY

Evil is a sucker for solidity. It always goes for big numbers, for confident granite, for ideologica...
JOSEPH BRODSKY

It is not just shameful for a contemporary American poet to use rhymes, it is unthinkable. It seems ...
JOSEPH BRODSKY

A writer is seldom satisfied with the condition he finds himself in. We're all given to fretting...
JOSEPH BRODSKY

In the 20th century, imprisonment of writers practically comes with the territory.
JOSEPH BRODSKY

Every individual ought to know at least one poet from cover to cover: if not as a guide through the ...
JOSEPH BRODSKY

Prison is essentially a shortage of space made up for by a surplus of time; to an inmate, both are p...
JOSEPH BRODSKY

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

The charge frequently leveled against poetry - that it is difficult, obscure, hermetic and whatnot -...
JOSEPH BRODSKY

It's a maddening thing in itself to look at an old poem of yours. To translate it is even more m...
JOSEPH BRODSKY

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

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

Writers seem mesmerized by the state - the temporal entity. The word 'perestroika' is impres...
JOSEPH BRODSKY

The fact that we are living does not mean we are not sick.
JOSEPH BRODSKY

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

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

Twentieth-century Russian literature has produced nothing special except perhaps one novel and two s...
JOSEPH BRODSKY

Life—the way it really is—is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse
JOSEPH BRODSKY

For boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson of your lif...
JOSEPH BRODSKY

A poet is a combination of an instrument and a human being in one person, with the former gradually ...
JOSEPH BRODSKY

When hit by boredom, let yourself be crushed by it; submerge, hit bottom. In general, with things un...
JOSEPH BRODSKY

The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, eve...
JOSEPH BRODSKY

If there is any substitute for love, it is memory
JOSEPH BRODSKY

On the whole, books are indeed less finite than ourselves. Even the worst among them outlast their a...
JOSEPH BRODSKY

If there is any substitute for love, it is memory.
JOSEPH BRODSKY

...boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson in your life...
JOSEPH BRODSKY

What concerns me is that man, unable to articulate, to express himself adequately, reverts to action...
JOSEPH BRODSKY

For darkness restores what light cannot repair.
JOSEPH BRODSKY

The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, eve...
JOSEPH BRODSKY

It's not that prison makes you shed your abstract notions. On the contrary, it pares them down t...
JOSEPH BRODSKY

Prison is, indeed, a translation of your metaphysics, ethics, sense of history and whatnot into the ...
JOSEPH BRODSKY

An ethical man doesn't need a consensus of his allies in order to act against something he finds...
JOSEPH BRODSKY

Whenever one pulls the trigger in order to rectify history's mistake, one lies. For history make...
JOSEPH BRODSKY

Beginning a poem, the poet as a rule doesn't know the way it's going to come out, and at tim...
JOSEPH BRODSKY

Neither as a writer nor, moreover, as a leader of a nation should you use terminology that obscures ...
JOSEPH BRODSKY

As failures go, attempting to recall the past is like claiming to grasp the meaning of existence. Bo...
JOSEPH BRODSKY

To translate poetry, one has to possess some art, at the very least the art of stylistic re-embodime...
JOSEPH BRODSKY

My poems getting published in Russia doesn't make me feel in any fashion, to tell you the truth....
JOSEPH BRODSKY

[Robert] Frost's triumph was not being at John Kennedy's inauguration ceremony, but the day when he ...
JOSEPH BRODSKY

I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in compe...
NORMAN BRODSKY

The biggest problem is keeping the cell tower aloft.
IRA BRODSKY

The offensive line and defensive line are coming together well. We're working very hard and we're al...
CHUCK BRODSKY

My values tend to gravitate toward the older ways. There is a high degree of honor in being a trouba...
CHUCK BRODSKY

It was a lot of years before I got something I wanted to sing in front of other people.
CHUCK BRODSKY

We realize it's going to be even harder to win because everyone out there wants to beat us. The way ...
CHUCK BRODSKY

Brothers in 'Pike' cover all ranges of the spectrum, from a militant Republican Texan to a Jewish De...
ALEX BRODSKY

I'd trust that Bush has a lot more experience around kegs than Kerry.
ALEX BRODSKY

The system is broke. Cases like this make the Correctional Service of Canada look really terrible.
DANIEL BRODSKY

That's the real shame. Society is not well-served by sending a convict to a penitentiary who needs m...
DANIEL BRODSKY

We're pleased that consumers will have the benefit of devices that will work well in the IP environm...
ART BRODSKY

I?d be less than honest if I told you there was a great deal of sympathy for the net neutrality idea...
ART BRODSKY

It is a very fluid situation. In fact even as we speak, in the next day or so, there should be some ...
ART BRODSKY

Nobody on our side liked (the new version). It was basically a rewrite of the old draft. It's obviou...
ART BRODSKY

People are really stirred up about this,
ART BRODSKY

We are willing to work with the Hill on these issues, but we of course have serious reservations abo...
ART BRODSKY

He doesn't care about himself. He was prepared to die in that hospital room. When they took the knif...
GREG BRODSKY

Mr. Magee, in retrospect, would've been far better off in a penitentiary. He would've either been in...
DANIEL BRODSKY

We're not at the drafting stage. I think we're moving toward the conceptual stage of what we need to...
RICHARD BRODSKY

There's no adequate treatment for him (at such a facility). That's just a jail disguised as a hospit...
DANIEL BRODSKY

We are each others angels, we meet when it is time
CHUCK BRODSKY

He has almost no shot of getting out of a psychiatric hospital.
DANIEL BRODSKY

They should be outlawed. They should do good police work, convict people on the basis of physical ev...
GREG BRODSKY

This was not a life for him, this was not a life for her.
GREG BRODSKY

We are delighted at the continued strong endorsement of TRIB by the members of ACTN. Since we have a...
HARVEY BRODSKY

There's not a single major new truck tire manufacturer that would bring a tire to the market that is...
HARVEY BRODSKY

I think adding Common Short Codes to print advertising is the best option. A user just has to send a...
IRA BRODSKY

Companies need to look at the MVNO market as a long-term commitment and not expect a positive cash f...
IRA BRODSKY

One of the areas where I see a lot of activity is in-building wireless coverage.
IRA BRODSKY

We have evidence of compensation to top management when, as far as I know, firemen and police of the...
RICHARD BRODSKY

If you look at all the exchanges that had started down the demutualization path ... the IPO is not t...
WILLIAM BRODSKY

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man will never on h...
JOSEPH CONRAD

Most people would rather stay home and watch Casablanca for the fourth time or the 10th time on Turn...
JOSEPH BOLOGNA

Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions.
JOSEPH ROUX

Justice is the truth in action.
JOSEPH JOUBERT

You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
JOSEPH JOUBERT

Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.
JOSEPH JOUBERT

Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.
JOSEPH JOUBERT

Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
JOSEPH JOUBERT

Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
JOSEPH JOUBERT

Innocence is always unsuspicious.
JOSEPH JOUBERT

The Cold War is over but Cold War thinking survives.
JOSEPH ROTBLAT

Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely th...
JOSEPH CONRAD

When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly he...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

People feel I don't mix much, but I'm working at it.
NAFISA JOSEPH

The greatest injustice in the world is to bring a child into the world, and not be able to offer it ...
NAFISA JOSEPH

Winning is very important to me. I wouldn't be happy with anything less. And I work towards my g...
NAFISA JOSEPH

I didn't want to get into acting. I was very happy doing MTV, it took up my time, I was content.
NAFISA JOSEPH

I have always loved animals since I was very young.
NAFISA JOSEPH

I was a little nervous backstage. But I had this book, Gandhi. I just read his quotes, closed my eye...
NAFISA JOSEPH

Most important was to remain focused and always have presence of mind.
NAFISA JOSEPH

Ummm, there is not just one good thing about being a VJ, it is a package deal. It is a fun job and y...
NAFISA JOSEPH

Deep inside, I was hoping I'd win: The competition was tough, but I learned from other's mis...
NAFISA JOSEPH

I won the crown for what I am - I'm certainly not going to let go of that!
NAFISA JOSEPH

Sometimes, I sit down to sketch at the unearthly hour of 3 in the morning!
NAFISA JOSEPH

I love being photographed, I love the ramp.
NAFISA JOSEPH

Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by t...
JOSEPH ADDISON

There's been many times when a producer will say, 'I don't think you want to say that.&#...
TYLER JOSEPH

A spirit, breathing the language of independence, is natural to Englishmen, few of whom are disposed...
JOSEPH LANCASTER

In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bo...
JOSEPH CONRAD

There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for ones own safety i...
JOSEPH HELLER

I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned him...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can ch...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a ...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique pote...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple a...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

I don't have to have faith, I have experience.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Love is a friendship set to music.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the e...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dyin...
JOSEPH ADDISON

The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But th...
JOSEPH ADDISON

Literature was formerly an art and finance a trade; today it is the reverse.
JOSEPH ROUX

Our experience is composed rathery of illusions that of wisdom acquired.
JOSEPH ROUX

When unhappy, one doubts everything; when happy, one doubts nothing.
JOSEPH ROUX

I was raised to feel that doing nothing was a sin. I had to learn to do nothing.
JENNY JOSEPH

Health and cheerfulness mutually beget each other.
JOSEPH ADDISON

A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.
JOSEPH CONRAD

At a moderate calculation, among a million of persons inhabiting the metropolis, there are, at least...
JOSEPH LANCASTER

My dad was a cotton buyer and cotton buyers always considered themselves superior to the rest of the...
JOSEPH MITCHELL

I like candles. It helps cover up for the fact that I have four male roommates.
TYLER JOSEPH

A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
JOSEPH ADDISON

The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good na...
JOSEPH ADDISON

'Tis not in mortals to command success, But we'll do more, Sempronius,-- We'll deserve it.
JOSEPH ADDISON

My favorite actors when I was a kid were in their '60s. Spencer Tracy, Humphrey Bogart, John Way...
JOSEPH BOLOGNA

Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man!
JOSEPH ADDISON

Curse on his virtues! they've undone his country.
JOSEPH ADDISON

I labored hard to avoid trouble and bloodshed.
CHIEF JOSEPH

Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
JOSEPH ADDISON

If there's a power above us, (and that there is all nature cries aloud Through all her works) he ...
JOSEPH ADDISON

There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.
JOSEPH JOUBERT

The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.
JOSEPH JOUBERT

My voice is still for war.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Loveliest of women! heaven is in thy soul, Beauty and virtue shine forever round thee, Bright...
JOSEPH ADDISON

Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know.
JOSEPH ROUX

There are the girls we love, the men we look up to, the tenderness, the friendships, the opportuniti...
JOSEPH CONRAD

What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.
JOSEPH JOUBERT

Young men soon give and soon forget affronts; Old age is slow in both.
JOSEPH ADDISON

There were formerly horizons within which people lived and thought and mythologized. There are now n...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.
JOSEPH JOUBERT

You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.
JOSEPH PARKINSON

A lot of people have mentioned that I'm the X-factor on the team. I'll try and do what I've been try...
ADRIAN JOSEPH

The ACC games are right around the corner. We can't play like this because it's a different level.
ADRIAN JOSEPH

ACC games are right around the corner. We can't play like this because it's a different level.
ADRIAN JOSEPH

I stepped up with confidence to take the shot, and it went in. After the shot went through the net, ...
ADRIAN JOSEPH

We're going to come out like we do every game playing defense and playing with a lot of confidence. ...
ADRIAN JOSEPH

I've been given more opportunities, and I'm just trying to step up and do big things along with Sean...
ADRIAN JOSEPH

When Sean came back in the game, he kept on scoring so all their focus was on Sean. That made me wid...
ADRIAN JOSEPH

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