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Danh ngôn của Joseph Brodsky (Sứ mệnh: 5)

For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language.
Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production.
Who included me among the ranks of the human race?
Man is what he reads.
It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything.
Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.
What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.
How delightful to find a friend in everyone.
I like the idea of isolation. I like the reality of it. You realize what you are... not that the knowledge is inevitably rewarding.
Poetry seems to be the only weapon able to beat language, using language's own means.
This 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.
Tyranny will make an entire population into readers of poetry.
I belong to the Russian language. As to the state, from my point of view, the measure of a writer's patriotism is not oaths from a high platform, but how he writes in the language of the people among whom he lives.
One of the worst things that can happen to an artist is to perceive himself as the owner of his art, and art as his tool. A product of the marketplace sensibility, this attitude barely differs on a psychological plane from the patron's view of the artist as a paid employee.