Joseph Brodsky Quotes

This assumption that the blue collar crowd is not supposed to read it, or a farmer in his overalls is not to read poetry, seems to be dangerous if not tragic.

Joseph Brodsky

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: May 24, 1940 - January 28, 1996

Topics

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I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels.

John Calvin

WordsThanDefectConsiderLess

I've met people with my prints tattooed on them, my face tattooed on them - I have that commitment and love.

Jeremy Scott

LoveCommitmentPeopleFacePrints

I'm enormously sympathetic to talented people who have few roles to choose from.

Joel Grey

PeopleChooseTalented PeopleWho

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

John F. Kennedy

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If I have a spare second, I usually catch up on the many magazines I'm behind on or watch the latest movies on demand that I usually missed at the theater. I love magazines. My top three: Graydon Carter's 'Vanity Fair', Adam Moss' 'New York magazine' and David Remnick's 'New Yorker.'

Andrew Ross Sorkin

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Right now, my career is in three directions: as a performer, as an arranger, as an author - and I don't give any one of them true precedent, or true top marks, as opposed to the other two.

Mel Torme

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But we look back now, and we realize the Great Society was not a success.

Alphonso Jackson

SuccessGreatSocietyLookBackNow

I was a West Hollywood and Laurel Canyon girl for years, and it was so central that I felt like we'd moved to Portland when we came to Malibu, but now I can't imagine living anywhere else. We have the best of all worlds, hilltop living, 15 minutes from town, with the beach at the bottom of the road.

Sonya Walger

GirlBestBeachRoadNowLiving

What you have to understand is that my thing is not glamour. I love stretch marks and C-section scars and all of that. I'm a grown man. You don't gotta put on no makeup with me.

Tracy Morgan

LoveManMeMakeupYouScars

Now I'm no biologist, but it seems to make a lot of sense that slow lives, as well as being enjoyable, are long lives. One only has to think of the example of the tortoise for proof of this theory from the animal world.

Tom Hodgkinson

AnimalWorldThinkSlowLongNow

The bulk of my fans are my age, and I'm aging at the same rate they are. That makes me relevant. They like hearing what I have to say. I work hard at it, but it's addicting, really.

Ron White

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Semantics, or the study of meaning, remained undeveloped, while phonetics made rapid progress and even came to occupy the central place in the scientific study of language.

Roman Jakobson

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