Joseph BrodskyThinkers

The Army is a peasant's idea of order.

The City is where everything is king size, both the beauty and the ugliness.

Life is a battle between Bad and Worse.

Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production.

Reading is required of readers. The only crime worse than burning books is not reading them.

Snobbery is only a form of despair.

Virgil is, like every human being, a poet has to deal with three questions: how, what for, and in the name of what to live.