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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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- “For darkness restores what light cannot repair.”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
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- “Oh Julie, wouldn’t I know if you were dead? Wouldn’t I feel it happening, like a jolt of electricity to my he…”Elizabeth Wein
- “Some people each left their spouse or lover because he or she was no longer the primary source of their happi…”Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- “How do you measure the life of one person against the greater good? Can it ever be the right thing to sacrifi…”Amy Engel
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Books by Joseph Brodsky
Selected Poems, 1968-1996
2020
Less Than One
2020