A person sets out to write a poem for a variety of reasons: to win the heart of his beloved; to express his attitude toward the reality surrounding him, be it a landscape or a state; to capture his state of mind at a given instant; to leave - as he thinks at that moment - a trace on the earth. Joseph Brodsky
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More Quotes By Joseph Brodsky
  1. Life–the way it really is–is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse

  2. For darkness restores what light cannot repair.

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

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

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

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