Joseph Brodsky Quotes & Sayings

22 most famous Joseph Brodsky quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for him. He was an American poet who passed away on 28 January, 1996.

“Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.”

“How delightful to find a friend in everyone.”

“Life is a game with many rules but no referee. One learns how to play it more by watching it than by consulting any book, including the holy book. Small wonder, then, that so many play dirty, that so few win, that so many lose.”

“Man is what he reads.”

“For boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson of your life - the lesson of your utter insignificance.”

“After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.”

“I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul when a man who looks at himself is so ashamed that he tries to make some sort of change - within himself, not on the outside.”