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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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- “The more one reads poetry, the less tolerant one becomes of any sort of verbosity, be that in political or ph…”Joseph Brodsky
- “I haven't shifted language. I'm writing in English because I like it. I'm a sucker for the language, but the…”Joseph Brodsky
- “Basically, it's hard for me to assess myself, a hardship not only prompted by the immodesty of the enterprise…”Joseph Brodsky
- “Poetry is not an art or a branch of art: it's something more.”Joseph Brodsky
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Books by Joseph Brodsky
Selected Poems, 1968-1996
2020
Less Than One
2020