Joseph Brodsky

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  • Irina Shevelevahas quoted8 years ago
    It is the telescopic sensation of coming in contact with the cellular infin­ity of another body's existence—a sensation known as tenderness and proportionate per­haps only to the number of cells that body contains.
  • Yana Shychkovahas quoted5 years ago
    you never know as you move through these labyrinths whether you are pursuing a goal or running from yourself, whether you are the hunter or his prey.
  • Yana Shychkovahas quoted5 years ago
    The grip of boredom was sudden but sure.
  • Irina Shevelevahas quoted8 years ago
    The tear is a throwback, a tribute of the future to the past. Or else it is the result of subtracting the greater from the lesser: beauty from man.
  • Irina Shevelevahas quoted8 years ago
    For, like every virtue, fi­delity is of value only so long as it is instinctive or idiosyncratic, rather than rational.
  • Irina Shevelevahas quoted8 years ago
    I suppose a case could be made for fidelity when one re­turns to the place of one's love, year after year, in the wrong season, with no guarantee of being loved back.
  • Irina Shevelevahas quoted8 years ago
    A tear is the anticipation of the eye's future.
  • Irina Shevelevahas quoted8 years ago
    I have no idea what kind of fish or bacteria these are, but I'm pretty sure they exist: tyr­anny is seldom synonymous with expertise.
  • Irina Shevelevahas quoted8 years ago
    you never know as you move through these labyrinths whether you are pursuing a goal or running from yourself, whether you are the hunter or his prey
  • Irina Shevelevahas quoted8 years ago
    Perhaps art is simply an orga­nism's reaction against its retentive limitations.
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