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Joseph Brodsky

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Joseph Brodsky Quotes

Total quotes: 6

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Joseph Brodsky

Birthname

Birthday: May 24, 1940

Death: January 28, 1996

Manner of Death: Natural Causes

Nationality: United States Of America, Statelessness, Soviet Union

Occupations: Essayist, Playwright, Translator, Writer, Poet

Total quotes: 6

“This feeling I’ve lost. That’s what really puzzles.”

— Joseph Brodsky, The End of a Beautiful Era

Tagged: Lost Sentiments, Feelings Go, Innocence

“If there is any substitute for love, it is memory.”

— Joseph Brodsky, Hope Against Hope: A Memoir

Tagged: Love, Memory, Substitute, Irreplaceable

“All the innocent head has in store for itself is an ax plus the evergreen laurel.”

— Joseph Brodsky, The End of a Beautiful Era

Tagged: All Innocence Ends The Same, The Axe or the Laurel, Why Not? (Naivety At Least Blooms), Keep Blooming

“One’s dreams, unlike the city, become less populous the older one gets. That’s why the eternal rest cancels analysis.”

— Joseph Brodsky, Transatlantic

Tagged: Never Trust Anyone Over 21, We Who Are Sleepy, Getting Older, Dreams Die, Death of Ideals, Aging Kills

“Saturn holds the wreath.”

— Joseph Brodsky, Song of Welcome

Tagged: Saturn, Space, Universe, Examples of Poetic Language

“Time’s invented by death.”

— Joseph Brodsky, The End of a Beautiful Era

Tagged: Death, What Is Death?

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