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Joseph Brodsky 17
Russian and American poet and Nobel Prize for Literature la… 1940–1996Related quotes

“I loved the man and do honor his memory, on this side idolatry, as much as any.”
On William Shakespeare
The Works of Ben Jonson, Second Folio (1640), Timber: or Discoveries

“If they will not love me, fear is an acceptable substitute.”
Source: The Kingdom of Gods (2011), Chapter 13 (p. 331)

“This complaining rambling rubbish is the substitute which has taken the place of love.”
Source: Diary of a Drug Fiend

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

Source: An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

“There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.”