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Joseph Brodsky [1940-1996] American

Rank: 102
Poet (with poems)

Akhmatova Orphans, Philosophy, Laureate

Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky was a Russian and American poet and essayist.
Born in Leningrad in 1940, Brodsky ran afoul of Soviet authorities and was expelled from the Soviet Union in 1972, settling in the United States with the help of W. H.

Education, Attitude, Change, Communication, Family, Friendship, Funny, Patriotism, Poetry, Saint Patrick's Day

Quote	Tags	Rank
Man is what he reads.	Education	101
Who included me among the ranks of the human race?	Funny	102
Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.	Family, Saint Patrick's Day	103
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	104
How delightful to find a friend in everyone.	Friendship	105
For boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson of your life - the lesson of your utter insignificance.		106
Life is a game with many rules but no referee. One learns how to play it more by watching it than by consulting any book, including the holy book. Small wonder, then, that so many play dirty, that so few win, that so many lose.		107
A language is a more ancient and inevitable thing than any state.		108
It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything.	Education	109
Life - the way it really is - is a battle not between Bad and Good but between Bad and Worse.		110
For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language.	Attitude, Communication, Patriotism	111
The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie.		112
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.		113
For the poet the credo or doctrine is not the point of arrival but is, on the contrary, the point of departure for the metaphysical journey.		114
This is the generation whose first cry of life was the Hungarian uprising.		115
What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.		116
Every individual ought to know at least one poet from cover to cover: if not as a guide through the world, then as a yardstick for the language.		117
Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production.	Poetry	118
Bad literature is a form of treason.		119
It would be enough for me to have the system of a jury of twelve versus the system of one judge as a basis for preferring the U.S. to the Soviet Union. I would prefer the country you can leave to the country you cannot.		120
The poetic notion of infinity is far greater than that which is sponsored by any creed.		121
Snobbery? But it's only a form of despair.		122

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