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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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- “In order to live in a different country, you have to love something there. You have to love something there.…”Joseph Brodsky
- “Good style in prose is always hostage to the precision, speed, and laconic intensity of poetic diction.”Joseph Brodsky
- “It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything.”Joseph Brodsky
- “My poems getting published in Russia doesn't make me feel in any fashion, to tell you the truth. I'm not tryi…”Joseph Brodsky
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Books by Joseph Brodsky
Selected Poems, 1968-1996
2020
Less Than One
2020