Basically, it's hard for me to assess myself, a hardship not only prompted by the immodesty of the enterprise, but because one is not capable of assessing himself, let alone his work. However, if I were to summarize, my main interest is the nature of time. That's what interests me most of all. What time can do to a man.

I started to write when I was eighteen or nineteen. However, until I was about twenty-three, I didn't take it that seriously.

Weaknesses have a certain function in a poem... some strategy in order to pave the reader's way to the impact of this or that line.

Joseph Brodsky Quotes