Collected Poems in English Quotes

“...and love, as an act, lacks a verb”
― Joseph Brodsky, Collected Poems in English

“VIII

O when so much has been and gone
behind you—grief, to say the least—
expect no help from anyone.
Board a train, get to the coast.
It’s wider and it’s deeper. This
superiority’s not a thing
of joy especially. Mind you, if
one has to feel as orphans do,
better in places where the view
stirs somehow and cannot sting.”
― Joseph Brodsky, Collected Poems in English