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Joseph Brodsky Quotes

American - Poet | May 24, 1940 - January 28, 1996

Contrary to popular belief, the outskirts are not where the world ends - they are precisely where it begins to unfurl.

World Belief Where Begins Contrary

The real biographies of poets are like those of birds, almost identical - their data are in the way they sound. A poet's biography lies in his twists of language, in his meters, rhymes, and metaphors.

Birds Language Data Way Sound Real

As failures go, attempting to recall the past is like claiming to grasp the meaning of existence. Both make one feel like a baby clutching at a basketball: one's palms keep sliding off.

Past Baby Basketball Feel Meaning

I remember rather little of my life, and what I do remember is of small consequence.

Life Small My Life Remember Little

Unlike life, a work of art never gets taken for granted: it is always viewed against its precursors and predecessors.

Life Work Art Never Always Against

The unbearableness of the future is easier to face than that of the present if only because human foresight is much more destructive than anything that the future can bring about.

Future Face Present More Human Only

Poetry seems to be the only weapon able to beat language, using language's own means.

Poetry Language Own Beat Seems Able

The mechanics of love imply some sort of bridge between the sensual and the spiritual, sometimes to the point of deification; the notion of an afterlife is implicit not only in our couplings, but also in our separations.

Love Spiritual Bridge Sometimes Only

Unfortunately, a human being is able to comprehend only that amount of evil which he is able to commit himself.

Evil Human Human Being Being Commit

The imprisoning of a writer is the same as the burning of a book.

Book Same Writer Burning

It is not just shameful for a contemporary American poet to use rhymes, it is unthinkable. It seems banal to him; he fears banality worse than anything, and therefore, he uses free verse - though free verse is no guarantee against banality.

Free American Him Anything Poet

To translate poetry, one has to possess some art, at the very least the art of stylistic re-embodiment.

Art Poetry Some Very Least Possess

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