Quotes by Brodsky, Joseph

In the works of the better poets you get the sensation that they're no >>

What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty a >>

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading >>

Quotations about Evil

Nature, more of a stepmother than a mother in several ways, has sown a >>

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment. >>

My mother's obsession with the good scissors always scared me a bit. I >>

The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even -- if you will -- eccentricity. That is, something that can't be feigned, faked, imitated; something even a seasoned imposter couldn't be happy with.

Brodsky, Joseph