Joseph Brodsky Quotes

Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production.

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• Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Time
  • Morning
  • Child

• What brought the British to the Gambia in the first place - which was bigger than it is now - was trade in ivory because the Gambia had a lot of elephants. They wiped out all the elephants and ended up selling Africans.

  

  Yahya Jammeh
  • Up
  • Now
  • Bigger

• You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Work
  • Real
  • Art

• I think the most important element of a power outfit is proper fit. The one item to focus on is a suit. If it's the right fit, you could wear it with a T-shirt and still convey the positive message.

  

  Garrett Neff
  • Important
  • Power
  • Focus

• I have a love/hate relationship with just about everything, but certainly with America.

  

  Gary Shteyngart
  • America
  • Hate
  • Relationship

• Israel can't be the only country in the Western world not to have freedom of religion.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • World
  • Country
  • Freedom

• I read Shakespeare when I was 14 because it's what we were taught.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Read
  • Because
  • Shakespeare

• I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry.

  

  Hannah Kent
  • Writing
  • Poetry
  • Qualities

• Skid Row would probably be my favorite Jersey band.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • Band
  • Favorite
  • Jersey

• People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.

  

  Laura Osnes
  • People
  • Story
  • Cinderella

• I was thinking things had changed: that the next generation of men weren't as institutionally misogynist as the previous were. And then, suddenly, the Internet came along and gave them a platform to voice their feelings anonymously. And boy, did the bile come out.

  

  Val McDermid
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Boy

• I used to wear miniskirts with my GB top, and sparkly sandals, and the boys would be like: 'Oh my gosh, this girl cannot be serious.'

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Girl
  • Like
  • Serious

• In 1966, thoughts about playing games using an ordinary TV set began to percolate in my mind.

  

  Ralph Baer
  • Mind
  • Thoughts
  • Games

• So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • Know
  • Price
  • Late

• You shouldn't put your hands on a woman. Simple as that.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Simple
  • Woman
  • Hands

• The United States has grown into a remarkable nation specifically because of our independent spirit and free market.

  

  Tammy Bruce
  • Free
  • Independent
  • Nation

• By understanding and harnessing the forces that drive human behavior, you can create a self-sustaining philanthropic effort that reaches millions of people. It begins with an entrepreneurial attitude: take an idea and execute on that idea. If it doesn't work, learn why and build on what you've learned.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • People
  • Work
  • Why

• I'm a very lucky girl.

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
  • Girl
  • Lucky
  • Very

• Most of us are shrinking in the face of psycho-social and physical poisons, of the toxins of our world. But compassion, the generation of compassion, actually mobilizes our immunity.

  

  Joan Halifax
  • World
  • Compassion

• If half the society isn't engaged on any number of sectors, success and potential will be limited. In that sense, I do definitely believe there is a growing movement and moment for women's issues.

  

  Zainab Salbi
  • Believe
  • Women
  • Success

• The essence of architecture is form and space, and light is the essential element to the key to architectural design, probably more important than anything. Technology and materials are secondary.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • Important
  • Light
  • Space

• Comedy is a reaction to the world, and I think it really helps to be an outsider. I've always been very interested in people's behavior, to the point of being obsessed - seeing what people needed and reading them, I think that's the backbone of comedy.

  

  Adriana Trigiani
  • People
  • World
  • Reading

• The truth is that, though we were justified by faith alone, the faith that justifies is never alone (it always produces fruit, 'good works,'...a transformed life).

  

  J. I. Packer
  • Life
  • Good
  • Truth

• Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production.

  

  Joseph Brodsky
  • Life
  • Poetry