Joseph Brodsky Quotes

Judge: 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.

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