«…Эти десять квадратных метров были моими — лучшие десять квадратных метров, что я знал в жизни». Так писал Иосиф Бродский про комнату в коммунальной квартире, в которой он прожил 17 лет со своими родителями

Articulation lags behind experience #JosephBrodsky

Life is a game with many rules but no referee. Small wonder that so many play dirty, that so few win, that so many lose #JosephBrodsky

Try to remember that human dignity derives its poise from denying the obvious #JosephBrodsky

Try to remember that human dignity is an absolute, not a piecemeal notion #JosephBrodsky

What's good about a hardship is that it is not a deception #JosephBrodsky

Be most vigilant over your index finger, for it is blame-thirsty. A pointed finger is a victim's logo #JosephBrodsky

What we regard as Evil is capable of a fairly ubiquitous presence if only because it tends to appear in the guise of good #JosephBrodsky

Now and in the time to be, I think it will pay for you to zero in on being precise with your language #JosephBrodsky

오늘 밤 나는 두 번씩이나 잠에서 깨어났네 그리고 그때마다 나는 정처 없는 발걸음을 창가로 옮겨 갔네 말없음표처럼 점점이 흩어진 창백한 가로등의 모습은 토막난 내 잠꼬대를 이어 보려는 안쓰런 몸짓 같았으나 결국에는 파편처럼 어둠 속으로 스러지고 말았네 나는 그대가 아기를 갖는 꿈을 꾸었네 그리고 그토록 오랜 세월을 헤어져 살았음에도 나는 여전히 그대에게 미안한

Twice I woke up tonight and wandered to the window. And the lights down on the street, like pale omission points, tried to complete the fragment of a sentence spoken through sleep, but diminished into

人大路 人人人

A fragment from the famous speech of Joseph Brodsky, which he made at the stadium in December 1988, before the graduates of the University of Michigan. Avoid attributing yourself to the status of a victim