What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.
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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.
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
Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production.
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
What should I say about my life?
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Europe's the mayonnaise, but America supplies the good old lobster.
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There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
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