Author of quotes: Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky. Page 38

... if you chose something that attracts others, it means a certain vulgarity of taste, and it doesn't matter that you came upon this place first. The first to come to be even worse for those who come after him, the more your appetite, already partly satisfied.

To live in an era of achievements, having a sublime nature, unfortunately, difficult.

Loneliness is a man squared.

I sit in the dark. And it is not worse
in a room, than darkness outside.

People used to ask ourselves: who am I? There, a scientist, an American, a chauffeur, a Jew, an immigrant... And we ought all the time to ask yourself: don't shit do I?

There are only two truly exciting topic worthy of serious discourse: gossip and metaphysics.

Only fish in the seas know the price of freedom.

Each grave - edge of the earth.

Virgo flatters to a certain limit -
then the elbow will not go or the knee.
How joyful the beautiful outside the body:
no hug, no cheating!

I sit in his garden, lit a lamp.
No girlfriends, no servants, no friends.
This world is weak and strong -
I agree only the hum of insects.

... The world will remain the same.
Yes. Will remain the same,
dazzling snow
and it is doubtful delicate.
The world will remain false.
The world will remain eternal,
maybe understandable,
but still infinite.
And, therefore, not to be kind
from faith in myself and in God.
And then, there were only
The illusion and the road.
And to be above the ground the sunset.
And be over the earth sunrises...
To feed its soldiers.
To approve its poets.

I am embarrassed to subtract
one of the two quantities
within a day.

The sound - form of continuing silence,
the similarity of a developing belt.