Joseph Brodsky : (5)

" On the whole, infinity is a fairly palpable aspect of this business of publishing, if only because it extends a dead author’s existence beyond the limits he envisioned, or provides a living author with a future he cannot measure. In other words, this business deals with the future which we all prefer to regard as unending. " - Joseph Brodsky

" It’s not that prison makes you shed your abstract notions. On the contrary, it pares them down to their most succinct articulations. Prison is, indeed, a translation of your metaphysics, ethics, sense of history and whatnot into the compact terms of your daily deportment. " - Joseph Brodsky

" The literature from which I come is rather large. " - Joseph Brodsky

" Poetry is not an art or a branch of art: it’s something more. " - Joseph Brodsky

" I had been imprisoned three times and had twice been incarcerated in a madhouse. " - Joseph Brodsky