I remember myself, age five, sitting on a porch overlooking a very muddy road. The day was rainy. I was wearing rubber boots, yellow - no, not yellow, green - and for all I know, I'm still there. - Joseph Brodsky 2 Share Now -
One of the worst things that can happen to an artist is to perceive himself as the owner of his art, and art as his tool. A product of the marketplace sensibility, this attitude barely differs on a psychological plane from the patron's view of the artist as a paid employee. - Joseph Brodsky 3 Share Now -
Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family. - Joseph Brodsky 4 Share Now -
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 5 Share Now -
Americans have been tremendously fortunate in poetry, regarding both the quantity and quality of poetry produced. Unfortunately, it remains in schools and universities; it is not widely distributed. - Joseph Brodsky 6 Share Now -
What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness. - Joseph Brodsky 7 Share Now -
Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family. - Joseph Brodsky 8 Share Now -
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 9 Share Now -
American poetry to me is a sort of relentless, nonstop sermon on human autonomy. - Joseph Brodsky 10 Share Now -
