Brodsky

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“After having exhausted all the arguments on behalf of evil, one utters the creed’s dictums with nostalgia rather than with fervor.”
—Joseph Brodsky (b. 1940)

“A poet is a combination of an instrument and a human being in one person, with the former gradually taking over the latter. The sensation of this takeover is responsible for timbre; the realization of it, for destiny.”
—Joseph Brodsky (b. 1940)

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