Joseph Brodsky Quotes
It is not just shameful for a contemporary American poet to use rhymes, it is unthinkable. It seems banal to him; he fears banality worse than anything, and therefore, he uses free verse - though free verse is no guarantee against banality.
Joseph Brodsky
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If it's free, it's advice; if you pay for it, it's counseling; if you can use either one, it's a miracle.
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Olivier Martinez
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Barack Obama
The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
E. M. Forster
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Federico Fellini
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William Nicholson
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Wallace Stevens
I always think I should try to get to bed early, but then I can't stop myself from watching telly and fiddling around on the net.
Jenson Button
It seemed impossible that there could be people in the world who still desired food, who laughed, who neither knew nor cared that Sirius Black was gone forever.
Joanne Rowling
The roles I'm interested in or have been interested in, you know, it's going to get down to conflict. Drama is conflict - conflict of interests.
Ben Foster
It is not just shameful for a contemporary American poet to use rhymes, it is unthinkable. It seems banal to him; he fears banality worse than anything, and therefore, he uses free verse - though free verse is no guarantee against banality.
Joseph Brodsky