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Joseph Brodsky

"For the poet the credo or doctrine is not the point of arrival but is, on the contrary, the point of departure for the metaphysical journey."

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"A poet often lives in an enchanted land where he sees things not with his eyes but with his feelings."

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"Sometimes poets expect me to think far deeper than I'm willing to dig."

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"He cleared his throat and held up one hand dramatically."Green grass breaks through snow. Artemis pleads for my help. He grinned at us, waiting for applause. "That last line was four syllables. Artemis said. Apollo frowned. "Was it? "No, no, that's six syllable, hhhm. He started muttering to himself. That's five syllables! He bowed, looking very pleased with himself."

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"Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own."

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"Don't you just love poetry that gives you a crinkly feeling up and down your back?"

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"Writing poems is simply an excuse to remember You."

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"It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them."

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"Only a seer or a lover would know that I'm making a jewelry of words for you -drawn from your essence -to flash and burn with your fire -so you can bedazzle with your own light ..."

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"It is strange how a scrap of poetry works in the mind and makes the legs move in time to it along the road."

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"A tough life needs a tough language-and that is what poetry is. That is what literature offers-a language powerful enough to say how it is."

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Joseph Brodsky
"For the poet the credo or doctrine is not the point of arrival but is, on the contrary, the point of departure for the metaphysical journey."

Poetry

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Joseph Brodsky
"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."

Life

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Joseph Brodsky
"For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language."

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Joseph Brodsky
"Who included me among the ranks of the human race?"

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Joseph Brodsky
"The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie."

History

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Joseph Brodsky
"Every individual ought to know at least one poet from cover to cover: if not as a guide through the world, then as a yardstick for the language."

Language

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Joseph Brodsky
"Bad literature is a form of treason."

Literature

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Joseph Brodsky
"Snobbery? But it's only a form of despair."

Despair

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Joseph Brodsky
"Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production."

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"A language is a more ancient and inevitable thing than any state."

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