Brodsky

Famous quotes containing the word brodsky:

“The real history of consciousness starts with one’s first lie.”
—Joseph Brodsky (b. 1940)

“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 (b. 1940)

“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
—Joseph Brodsky (b. 1940)