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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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- “What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.”Joseph Brodsky
- “When you have those two languages - an analytic one like English and a synthetic, very sensual thing like Rus…”Joseph Brodsky
- “In the 20th century, imprisonment of writers practically comes with the territory.”Joseph Brodsky
- “A writer is defined by the language in which he writes, and I would stick to that definition.”Joseph Brodsky
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- “From time immemorial, some men supposed to deal in one-valued 'eternal verities'. We called such men 'philoso…”Alfred Korzybski
- “Music is a language that doesn’t speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it’s in the bones,…”Keith Richards
- “Certain kinds of speed, flow, intensity, density of attacks, density of interaction... Music that concentrate…”Evan Parker
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Books by Joseph Brodsky
Selected Poems, 1968-1996
2020
Less Than One
2020