Joseph Brodsky Quotes

To translate poetry, one has to possess some art, at the very least the art of stylistic re-embodiment.

Joseph Brodsky

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• The wretched and miserable would rise into plenty of joy and happiness as soon as they climb the steps of my mosque.

  

  Sai Baba
  • Joy
  • Happiness
  • Climb

• I don't think I knew that you could be a novelist. I think a lot of my students are in the same condition. I thought it was unreachable, that it was sort of dead people. It took me a long time - I think I was well into novel writing before I really thought, 'Actually, this is a valid pastime.'

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• People who live in glass houses... have to answer the door.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • People
  • Live
  • Door

• The first decent building I did with my own practice was a chapel in Taiwan.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • Practice
  • First
  • Building

• How the visual world appears is important to me. I'm always aware of the light. I'm always aware of what I would call the 'deep composition.' Photography in the field is a process of creation, of thought and technique. But ultimately, it's an act of imaginatively seeing from within yourself.

  

  Sam Abell
  • World
  • Important
  • Light

• As many of you know I travel a good bit and do not get to see my friends and family as much as I would like.

  

  Natalie Gulbis
  • Good
  • Family
  • Friends

• When we talk about the minimum wage, we have to ask ourselves what it is that we owe both our workers and employers. I think clearly we owe them fairness.

  

  Dalton McGuinty
  • Fairness
  • Wage
  • Minimum Wage

• Even if I'm making music for people for $20 a night, at least I'm making music.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • People
  • Music
  • Night

• I am not going to talk about my personal life anymore. You have to learn that lesson sometime.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Life
  • Learn
  • Personal

• The mode by which the inevitable is reached is effort.

  

  Felix Frankfurter
  • Effort
  • Inevitable
  • Mode

• The living nightmare for a red state NASCAR driver would be a gay French driver.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Gay
  • Red
  • Living

• In space, you need to exercise your heart since it's not pumping blood around at the same rate.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Heart
  • Space
  • Exercise

• One of the problems with putting Huck Finn into a movie or on the stage is, you always make the white people stupid and racist. The point is, they don't know they're racist.

  

  Hal Holbrook
  • People
  • Movie
  • Stupid

• My kids have played sports all their life, and one thing I've tried to teach them when you lose, you try to be a gentleman about it.

  

  Vern Buchanan
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Sports

• I learned a tremendous amount about dialogue because I suffered as an actor.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Actor
  • Learned
  • Because

• I think the last thing you want to do as a writer, as a storyteller, is to create indifference. I don't necessarily go out of my way to provoke, but I would much rather have a song that triggers a whole myriad of reactions than a song that inspires a shrug of the shoulder.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Think
  • Want
  • Song

• I'm not a good Samaritan, I'm a businessman... The goal is to read and react. If we sign an artist that has potential for a shelf life way out in the distance, then we'll stay. But if not, then we won't.

  

  L.A. Reid
  • Life
  • Good
  • Goal

• And if you're horrible to me I'm going to write a song about you and you are not going to like it. That's how I operate.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Song
  • Me
  • Write

• We'll know homo superior when he comes - by definition. He'll be the one we won't be able to euth.

  

  Philip K. Dick

• I go jogging for 25 minutes every morning, even if I'm away from home.

  

  Pierre Dukan
  • Home
  • Morning

• I was thin and didn't realize how small I was - I was, like, 96 pounds when I got signed. You don't want to be 96 pounds. It's not attractive. I didn't know how to do my hair and makeup. I was such a tomboy.

  

  AJ Lee
  • Small
  • Hair
  • Makeup

• People need to treat animals like they would treat a kid. You have to take care of it, make sure they are happy and they have anything they need. If you don’t have the time, then you don’t need an animal. … I want people to be aware of what is around them. Just because they don’t want to deal with it, doesn’t mean they can shut it out.

  

  Marlen Esparza
  • People
  • Time
  • Happy

• I love Italian opera - it's so reckless. Damn Wagner, and his bellowings at Fate and death. Damn Debussy, and his averted face. I like the Italians who run all on impulse, and don't care about their immortal souls, and don't worry about the ultimate.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Love
  • Death
  • Running

• To translate poetry, one has to possess some art, at the very least the art of stylistic re-embodiment.

  

  Joseph Brodsky
  • Art
  • Poetry