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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.
More from Joseph Brodsky (153 quotes) →More quotes by Joseph Brodsky
- “Time is water, and the Venetians conquered both by building a city on water, and framed time with their canal…”Joseph Brodsky
- “If what distinguishes us from other species is speech, then poetry, which is the supreme linguistic operation…”Joseph Brodsky
- “Weaknesses have a certain function in a poem... some strategy in order to pave the reader's way to the impact…”Joseph Brodsky
- “I like the idea of isolation. I like the reality of it. You realize what you are... not that the knowledge is…”Joseph Brodsky
Poetry: more sayings
- “It all has to do with art - writing, painting, things I've done for a long time but just never had enough tim…”Jason Newsted
- “Not knowing the name of the tree,I stood in the floodof its sweet scent.”Bashō Matsuo
- “The worm doth woo the mortal, death claims a living bride, Night unto day is married, morn unto eventide, Ear…”Emily Dickinson
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Books by Joseph Brodsky
Selected Poems, 1968-1996
2020
Less Than One
2020