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“ 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. ”

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Life—the way it really is—is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse

~ Joseph Brodsky

...in the business of writing what one accumulates is not expertise but uncertainties. Which is but another name for craft.

~ Joseph Brodsky

... Now to die of griefwould mean, I'm afraid, to die belatedly, while latecomersare unwelcome, particularly in the future. ...

~ Joseph Brodsky

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

~ Joseph Brodsky