There is no other antidote to the vulgarity of the human heart than doubt and good taste, which one finds fused in works of great literature.


'Letter to a President [Václav Havel]' (1993), in On Grief and Reason (1996)

Joseph Brodsky Quotes

There is no other antidote to the vulgarity of the human heart than doubt and good taste, which one finds fused in works of great literature.

There is no other antidote to the vulgarity of the human heart than doubt and good taste, which one finds fused in works of great literature.

There is no other antidote to the vulgarity of the human heart than doubt and good taste, which one finds fused in works of great literature.

There is no other antidote to the vulgarity of the human heart than doubt and good taste, which one finds fused in works of great literature.