It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything.
More Quotes from Joseph Brodsky:
The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even, if you will, eccentricity. That is, something that cant be feigned, faked, imitated something even a seasoned impostor couldnt be happy with.Joseph Brodsky
Also: we didn't love our women, but they conceived.
Joseph Brodsky
A language is a more ancient and inevitable thing than any state.
Joseph Brodsky
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.
Joseph Brodsky
A nowhere winter evening with wine.
Joseph Brodsky
If a poet has any obligation toward society, it is to write well. Being in the minority, he has no other choice. Failing this duty, he sinks into oblivion. Society, on the other hand, has no obligation toward the poet.
Joseph Brodsky
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