Author of quotes: Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky. Page 1

I am not a righteous man (although I try not to unbalance my conscience) and not a sage; not an esthete and not a philosopher. I'm just nervous, due to circumstances and my own actions, but an observant person. As my beloved Ryunosuke Akutagawa once said, I have no principles, I only have nerves.

Passion is the privilege of the insignificant.

You are insignificant because you are finite. However, the more finite a thing, the more it is charged with life, emotions, joy, fears, compassion. For infinity is not particularly animated, not particularly emotional.

Anything that reveals regularity is fraught with boredom.

Craving for something that someone else has means losing your own uniqueness.

the pen of the Cyrillic alphabet is pricked.

Stuck in a socket with ethyl morality.

I woke up drowning in pain,
And could not change the outcome.
I'm on the outside seemed bright,
And inside was long dead.

The work of art is always intended to outlast its Creator.

No matter how big would have been today, the popularity of the subconscious, all the same consciousness we depend stronger.

Society has no right to complain if a politician will cheat.

Not reading poetry, society descends to such a level of speech where it becomes easy prey for the demagogue or the tyrant.

Writing a book, no one stanovitsya younger. No one is getting any younger and reading a book.

The more we read poetry, the less tolerant we become to the verbosity of any kind.