Joseph Brodsky

Joseph Brodsky

"For darkness restores what light cannot repair."
41 Quotes
"For darkness restores what light cannot repair."
Joseph Brodsky
"There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them."
Joseph Brodsky
"“For darkness restores what light cannot repair.”"
Joseph Brodsky
"Life—the way it really is—is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse"
Joseph Brodsky
"“Life—the way it really is—is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse”"
Joseph Brodsky
"People who buy 'The National Enquirer' would buy poetry. They should be given a choice. I'm absolutely serious."
Joseph Brodsky
"The charge frequently leveled against poetry - that it is difficult, obscure, hermetic and whatnot - indicates not the state of poetry but, frankly, the rung of the evolutionary ladder on which society is stuck."
Joseph Brodsky
"Poetry isn't just different from prose, it's more important for the human species."
Joseph Brodsky
"American poetry is this country's greatest patrimony. It takes a stranger to see some things clearly. This is one of them, and I am that stranger."
Joseph Brodsky
"Tyranny will make an entire population into readers of poetry."
Joseph Brodsky
"American poetry to me is a sort of relentless, nonstop sermon on human autonomy."
Joseph Brodsky
"Anyone who regards poetry as an entertainment, as a 'read,' commits an anthropological crime, in the first place against himself."
Joseph Brodsky
"Poetry is not an art or a branch of art: it's something more."
Joseph Brodsky
"I am a patriot, but I must say that English poetry is the richest in the world."
Joseph Brodsky
"This assumption that the blue collar crowd is not supposed to read it, or a farmer in his overalls is not to read poetry, seems to be dangerous if not tragic."
Joseph Brodsky
"My idea is simply - is very simple - is that the books of poetry should be published in far greater volume and be distributed in far greater volume, in far more substantial manner. You can sell in supermarkets very cheaply. In paperbacks. You can sell in drugstores."
Joseph Brodsky
"The more one reads poetry, the less tolerant one becomes of any sort of verbosity, be that in political or philosophical discourse, be that in history, social studies or the art of fiction."
Joseph Brodsky
"To translate poetry, one has to possess some art, at the very least the art of stylistic re-embodiment."
Joseph Brodsky
"Poetry seems to be the only weapon able to beat language, using language's own means."
Joseph Brodsky
"Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production."
Joseph Brodsky
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