Judge: And what is your occupation in general?
Brodsky: Poet, poet-translator.
Judge: And who recognized you to be a poet? Who put you in the ranks of poet?
Brodsky: No one. And who put me in the ranks of humanity?
Judge: Did you study it?...How to be a poet? Did you attempt to finish an insitute of higher learning...where they prepare...teach
Brodsky: I did not think that it is given to one by education.
Judge: By what then?
Brodsky: I think that it is from God.

Author: Joseph Brodsky

Judge: And what is your occupation in general?<br />Brodsky: Poet, poet-translator.<br />Judge: And who recognized you to be a poet? Who put you in the ranks of poet?<br />Brodsky: No one. And who put me in the ranks of humanity?<br />Judge: Did you study it?...How to be a poet? Did you attempt to finish an insitute of higher learning...where they prepare...teach<br />Brodsky: I did not think that it is given to one by education.<br />Judge: By what then?<br />Brodsky: I think that it is from God. - Joseph Brodsky



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