Joseph Brodsky Quote

I started to write when I was eighteen or nineteen. However, until I was about twenty-three, I didn't take it that seriously. Sometimes people say, "The best things you have written were when you were nineteen." But I don't think I'm a Rimbaud.

The Paris Review, Issue 83, Sptring 1982, The Art of Poetry No. 28

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

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

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

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