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About Joseph Brodsky
Russian and American poet and essayist
Joseph Brodsky was a Russian and American poet and essayist. He is known for poetry and prose that moved between Russian and English, and for an essayistic voice that made him a major literary figure in both cultures. Brodsky wrote as a poet and essayist across two languages, and his work is often associated with reflection, exile, and the life of the mind. He is credited on this site with 153 quotes.
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- “I don't suppose that I know more about life than anyone of my age, but it seems to me that, in the capacity o…”Joseph Brodsky
- “In order to live in a different country, you have to love something there. You have to love something there.…”Joseph Brodsky
- “Good style in prose is always hostage to the precision, speed, and laconic intensity of poetic diction.”Joseph Brodsky
- “It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything.”Joseph Brodsky
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- “No misery ever so beautiful than the one this mind creates.”Vivid Darkness
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Books by Joseph Brodsky
Selected Poems, 1968-1996
2020
Less Than One
2020