Life—the way it really is—is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse
Joseph BrodskyNo matter under what circumstances you leave it, home does not cease to be home. No matter how you lived there - well or poorly.
Joseph BrodskyJudge: And what is your occupation in general? Brodsky: Poet, poet-translator. Judge: And who recognized you to be a poet? Who put you in the ranks of poet? Brodsky: No one. And who put me in the ranks of humanity? Judge: Did you study it?...How to be a poet? Did you attempt to finish an insitute of higher learning...where they prepare...teach Brodsky: I did not think that it is given to one by education. Judge: By what then? Brodsky: I think that it is from God.
Joseph Brodsky