"For the poet the credo or doctrine is not the point of arrival but is, on the contrary, the point of departure for the metaphysical journey."

-- Joseph Brodsky

#Journey Quotes #Doctrine Quotes #Departure Quotes

“How am I going to listen to that horrible noise I make without a gram of coke and a couple of double Jack Daniels?”
“The United Nations has become a largely irrelevant, if not positively destructive institution, and the just-released U.N. report on the atrocities in Darfur, Sudan, proves the point.”
“Is not the very beginning of privilege, monopoly and industrial slavery this erecting of the ballot-box above the individual?”
“Mister Cameron - I have read the unexpurgated Ovid, the love poems of Sappho, the Decameron in the original, and a great many texts in Greek and Latin histories that were not though fit for proper gentlemen to read, much less proper ladies. I know in precise detail what Caligula did to, and with, his sisters, and I can quote it to you in Latin or in my own translation if you wish. I am interested in historical truth, and truth in history is often unpleasant and distasteful to those of fine sensibility. I frankly doubt that you will produce anything to shock me.”
“As long as the house of The Holy Spirit remains a haven for criminals the reputation of the church will remain in ruins.”
“Most people who commit a sin count on some personal benefit to be derived therefrom, but profanity has not even this excuse.”
“It's all been very interesting.”
“Everyone needs a certain amount of money. Beyond that, we pursue money because we know how to obtain it. We don't necessarily know how to obtain happiness.”

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