Man is what he reads. – Joseph Brodsky
What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness. – Joseph Brodsky

Man is what he reads. – Joseph Brodsky
What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness. – Joseph Brodsky
For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language. – Joseph Brodsky
It would be enough for me to have the system of a jury of twelve versus the system of one judge as a basis for preferring the U.S. to the Soviet Union. I would prefer the country you can leave to the country you cannot. – Joseph Brodsky
Its usually a big kind of vent of frustration or anger or sadness that puts me in the right frame of mind to write. Its such a cliche to say that artists write when theyre down, but its true for me. Its a relief to get out whats eating away at my heart or my soul or my head. – Ellie Goulding