Joseph Brodsky Quotes

Art is a spirit seeking flesh but finding words.

Joseph Brodsky

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

ArtWordsFindingSpiritFlesh

I hate wasting time.

Robert Plant

TimeHateWasting TimeWasting

I think you learn more from looking at how things occurred and what happened afterward, not just at the event.

John Turturro

LookingThinkLearnYouMoreThings

Unfortunately, I was like a lot of my own students, who don't really want criticism, just encouragement.

Sigrid Nunez

CriticismEncouragementWantMy Own

I have always hated celebrities lecturing people on politics. So forgive me. But I am passionate about this country. I am equally passionate about the potential of the people who live here.

Simon Cowell

LivePoliticsI AmPeopleMeAlways

Miami is one of these great places that is a really sensual, physically beautiful place.

Michael Mann

BeautifulGreatMiamiBeautiful Place

There are very few works of fiction that take you inside the heads of all characters. I tell my writing students that one of the most important questions to ask yourself when you begin writing a story is this: Whose story is it? You need to make a commitment to one or perhaps a few characters.

Julia Glass

CommitmentYourselfWritingStory

From the newest arrivals to our Native American brothers and sisters, we are one America.

Jared Polis

AmericanAmericaBrothersSisters

I like having my cellphone. I like the Internet. I like being different.

Dita Von Teese

Being DifferentInternetDifferent

I was a postman one Christmas and I developed a morbid fear of dogs.

Diane Abbott

FearChristmasDogsMorbidPostman

The strategic marketing paradigm of Open Source is a massively-parallel drunkard's walk filtered by a Darwinistic process.

Bruce Perens

WalkProcessMarketingOpenParadigm

I first became an Alan Moore fan in Covent Garden on a Saturday afternoon in 1987, when I bought a copy of 'Watchmen,' his graphic novel about ageing superheroes and nuclear apocalypse.

Susanna Clarke

SaturdayGardenCopyFirstAfternoon

I give with reason.

Thomas North

ReasonGive

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