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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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- “...in the business of writing what one accumulates is not expertise but uncertainties. Which is but another n…”Joseph Brodsky
- “To put it in plain language, Russia is that country where the name of a writer appears not on the cover of hi…”Joseph Brodsky
- “There is nothing odder than to apply an analytical device to a synthetic phenomenon: for instance, to write i…”Joseph Brodsky
- “The concept of historical necessity is the product of rational thought and arrived in Russia by the Western r…”Joseph Brodsky
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Books by Joseph Brodsky
Selected Poems, 1968-1996
2020
Less Than One
2020