Joseph Brodsky Quotes

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

...in the business of writing what one accumulates is not expertise but uncertainties. Which is but another name for craft.

For darkness restores what light cannot repair.

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

... Now to die of grief
would mean, I'm afraid, to die
belatedly, while latecomers
are unwelcome, particularly in the future. ...

The Last Judgement is the Last Judgement, but a human being who spent his life in Russia, has to be, without any hesitation, placed into Paradise.