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Joseph Brodsky

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The identity of Joseph Brodsky may be elusive, but the power of their words is anything but. With equal ease, Joseph Brodsky moved between Education and Work, finding connections others missed. Our collection holds 11 quotes from Joseph Brodsky, each offering a different angle on Education, Work, Poetry, Patriotism, and History. Readers often gravitate to this one: "Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family."

“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.”

— Joseph Brodsky

Change

All Quotes by Joseph Brodsky

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

— Joseph Brodsky

Poetry

“Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.”

— Joseph Brodsky

Family

“Man is what he reads.”

— Joseph Brodsky

Education

“It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything.”

— Joseph Brodsky

Education

“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.”

— Joseph Brodsky

Change

“The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie.”

— Joseph Brodsky

History

“What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.”

— Joseph Brodsky

Beauty

“After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.”

— Joseph Brodsky

Work

“For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language.”

— Joseph Brodsky

Attitude