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.
