Joseph Brodsky

"For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language."

"What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness."

"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."

"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."