Joseph Brodsky föddes den May 24th1940 och dog den 28 January 1996 - Nobel Prize for Literature in 1987. Mer info via Google eller Bing.
It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything.
It would be enough for me to have the system of a jury of twelve versus the system of one judge as a basis for preferring the U.S. to the Soviet Union. I would prefer the country you can leave to the country you cannot.
Life - the way it really is - is a battle not between Bad and Good but between Bad and Worse
Life is a game with many rules but no referee. One learns how to play it more by watching it than by consulting any book, including the holy book. Small wonder, then, that so many play dirty, that so few win, that so many lose.
The poetic notion of infinity is far greater than that which is sponsored by any creed.
The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie.
The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even / if you will / eccentricity. That is, something that can't be feigned, faked, imitated; something even a seasoned imposter couldn't be happy with.
This is the generation whose first cry of life was the Hungarian uprising.
Twentieth-century Russian literature has produced nothing special except perhaps one novel and two stories by Andrei Platonov, who ended his days sweeping streets.
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