Man is what he reads. – Joseph Brodsky
For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language. – Joseph Brodsky

Man is what he reads. – Joseph Brodsky
For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language. – Joseph Brodsky
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. – Joseph Brodsky
It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything. – Joseph Brodsky