Alexandr

“It's an abominable fallacy that suffering makes for greater art. Suffering blinds, deafens, ruins, and often kills. Osip Mandelstam was a great poet before the revolution. So was Anna Akhmatova, so was Marina Tsvetaeva. They would have become what they became even if none of the historical events that befell Russia in this century had taken place: because they were gifted. Basically, talent doesn't need history.”
― 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.”
― Joseph Brodsky

“Лапой листать страницы удобнее, чем копытом.”
― Joseph Brodsky

“Buenas noches.
Don't mind the roaches.”
― Joseph Brodsky