Wednesday Morning Quotation

Joseph Brodsky was a Nobel Prize winning Russian poet who was expelled from the Soviet Union, no doubt for expressing views sim8ilar to this one (from his Nobel acceptance speech):

"If art teaches anything... it is the privateness of
the human condition. Being the most ancient as
well as the most literal form of private enterprise,
it fosters in a man, knowingly or unwittingly, a
sense of his uniqueness, of individuality, of
separateness-- thus turning him from a social
animal into an autonomous 'I'."