15 Quotes by Joseph Brodsky

• Who included me among the ranks of the human race?
• Man is what he reads.
• The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie.
• Snobbery? But it's only a form of despair.
• What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.
• The poetic notion of infinity is far greater than that which is sponsored by any creed.
• 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.
• It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything.
• 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.
• How delightful to find a friend in everyone.
• A language is a more ancient and inevitable thing than any state.
• Bad literature is a form of treason.
• 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.
• For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language.
• Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.

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