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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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- “Art is a spirit seeking flesh but finding words.”Joseph Brodsky
- “Snobbery? But it's only a form of despair.”Joseph Brodsky
- “Reduced... to a crude formula, the Russian tragedy is precisely the tragedy of a society in which literature…”Joseph Brodsky
- “I always adhered to the idea that God is time, or at least that His spirit is.”Joseph Brodsky
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More Language quotes
- “There is some mysterious thing that goes on whereby, in the process of playing Shakespeare continuously, acto…”Kenneth Branagh
- “Humans are just barely intelligent tool users; Darwinian evolutionary selection stopped when language and too…”Charles Stross
- “Silence is the mother of all tongues”Sudheer Reddy
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Books by Joseph Brodsky
Selected Poems, 1968-1996
2020
Less Than One
2020