What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.
From Joseph Brodsky
How delightful to find a friend in everyone.
To translate poetry, one has to possess some art, at the very least the art of stylistic re-embodiment.
In order to live in a different country, you have to love something there. You have to love something there. You have to love either the spirit of the laws or the economic opportunities, or the - well, history of the country, the language perhaps, literature.
I remember myself, age five, sitting on a porch overlooking a very muddy road. The day was rainy. I was wearing rubber boots, yellow - no, not yellow, green - and for all I know, I'm still there.
By and large, prisons are survivable, though hope is indeed what you need least upon entering here; a lump of sugar would be more useful.
Life is a game with many rules but no referee. One learns how to play it more by watching it than by consulting any book, including the holy book. Small wonder, then, that so many play dirty, that so few win, that so many lose.
A language is a more ancient and inevitable thing than any state.
Life - the way it really is - is a battle not between Bad and Good but between Bad and Worse.
It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything.
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