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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
- “I remember rather little of my life, and what I do remember is of small consequence.”Joseph Brodsky
- “Man is what he reads.”Joseph Brodsky
- “This assumption that the blue collar crowd is not supposed to read it, or a farmer in his overalls is not to…”Joseph Brodsky
- “Life—the way it really is—is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse”Joseph Brodsky
More Reflections quotes
- “Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.”St. Jerome
- “After having children, life becomes about living beyond yourself; about being bigger and better.”Jaclyn Smith
- “Your ability to rationalize your own bad deeds makes you believe that the whole world is as amoral as you are.”Douglas Coupland
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Books by Joseph Brodsky
Selected Poems, 1968-1996
2020
Less Than One
2020