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Joseph Brodsky

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

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"The poetic notion of infinity is far greater than that which is sponsored by any creed."
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"Bad literature is a form of treason."
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"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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"For boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson of your life - the lesson of your utter insignificance."
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"A language is a more ancient and inevitable thing than any state."
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"What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness."
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"Snobbery? But it's only a form of despair."
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"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."
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"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."
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