Poetry Quote by Joseph Brodsky — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Ah, how much more soothing”

“Life—the way it really is—is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse”

“A wealth you cannot imagine”

“I am obnoxious to each carping tongue/ Who says my hand a needle better fits./ A poet's pen all scorn I should thus wrong/ For such despite they cast on female wits;/ If what I do prove well, it won't advance,/ They'll say it's stolen, or else, it was by chance.”

“When”

“So here is my story, may it bring”

“At a certain level of abstraction, anyone could have written the poem, but that didn't feel true either. It seemed as though what he was really saying was: there's something beautiful about the way you think and feel, or the way you experience the world is beautiful in some way.”

“The History Teacher”