Man is what he reads.
Weitere Zitate von Joseph Brodsky
Zum Autor"American poetry is this country's greatest patrimony. It takes a stranger to see some things clearly. This is one of them, and I am that stranger."
"A person sets out to write a poem for a variety of reasons: to win the heart of his beloved; to express his attitude toward the reality surrounding him, be it a landscape or a state; to capture his state of mind at a given instant; to leave - as he thinks at that moment - a trace on the earth."
"Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production."
"The charge frequently leveled against poetry - that it is difficult, obscure, hermetic and whatnot - indicates not the state of poetry but, frankly, the rung of the evolutionary ladder on which society is stuck."