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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) →Keep reading 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
- “For the poet the credo or doctrine is not the point of arrival but is, on the contrary, the point of departur…”Joseph Brodsky
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- “Each multiplex has screens allocated to each studio. The screens need filling. Studios have to create product…”Orson Welles
- “After all, island living is where I began on Taransay, and I have such fond memories of it.”Ben Fogle
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Books by Joseph Brodsky
Selected Poems, 1968-1996
2020
Less Than One
2020