Joseph Brodsky1940–1996The quotations of
Joseph Brodsky
Russian-American poet, essayist, and Nobel laureate
1940–1996
5 quotes, most often on Good & Evil.
Life—the way it really is—is a battle not between bad and good but between bad and worse.
It is better to be a total failure in democracy than a martyr or the crème de la crème in tyranny.
Nobel Prize Lecture (8 December 1987)- Less Than One: Selected Essays (1986)
- “A Commencement Address” (1984), delivered at Williams College; As quoted in: Robert Inchausti (2014) Thinking through Thomas Merton. p. 110
The formula for prison is a lack of space counterbalanced by a surplus of time.
Less Than One: Selected Essays (1986), p. 28
