02c. 1956 ADIt is well to read everything of something, and something of everything.Joseph Brodsky / quote ↗
03c. 1956 ADIf what distinguishes us from other species is speech, then poetry, which is the supreme linguistic operation, is our anthropological - indeed, genetic - goal.Joseph Brodsky / quote ↗
04c. 1956 ADAmericans have been tremendously fortunate in poetry, regarding both the quantity and quality of poetry produced. Unfortunately, it remains in schools and universities; it is not widely distributed.Joseph Brodsky / quote ↗
05c. 1956 ADPoetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production.Joseph Brodsky / quote ↗
06c. 1956 ADPoetry seems to be the only weapon able to beat language, using language's own means.Joseph Brodsky / quote ↗
07c. 1956 ADTo translate poetry, one has to possess some art, at the very least the art of stylistic re-embodiment.Joseph Brodsky / quote ↗
08c. 1956 ADThe more one reads poetry, the less tolerant one becomes of any sort of verbosity, be that in political or philosophical discourse, be that in history, social studies or the art of fiction.Joseph Brodsky / quote ↗
09c. 1956 ADMy idea is simply - is very simple - is that the books of poetry should be published in far greater volume and be distributed in far greater volume, in far more substantial manner. You can sell in supermarkets very cheaply. In paperbacks. You can sell in drugstores.Joseph Brodsky / quote ↗
10c. 1956 ADThis assumption that the blue collar crowd is not supposed to read it, or a farmer in his overalls is not to read poetry, seems to be dangerous if not tragic.Joseph Brodsky / quote ↗
11c. 1956 ADI am a patriot, but I must say that English poetry is the richest in the world.Joseph Brodsky / quote ↗
13c. 1956 ADAnyone who regards poetry as an entertainment, as a 'read,' commits an anthropological crime, in the first place against himself.Joseph Brodsky / quote ↗
14c. 1956 ADAmerican poetry to me is a sort of relentless, nonstop sermon on human autonomy.Joseph Brodsky / quote ↗
16c. 1956 ADAmerican poetry is this country's greatest patrimony. It takes a stranger to see some things clearly. This is one of them, and I am that stranger.Joseph Brodsky / quote ↗
17c. 1956 ADPoetry isn't just different from prose, it's more important for the human species.Joseph Brodsky / quote ↗
18c. 1956 ADThe charge frequently leveled against poetry - that it is difficult, obscure, hermetic and whatnot - indicates not the state of poetry but, frankly, the rung of the evolutionary ladder on which society is stuck.Joseph Brodsky / quote ↗
19c. 1956 ADPeople who buy 'The National Enquirer' would buy poetry. They should be given a choice. I'm absolutely serious.Joseph Brodsky / quote ↗
