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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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- “I am neither an Occidental writer nor a Russian writer. I am an accidental writer.”Joseph Brodsky
- “Prison is essentially a shortage of space made up for by a surplus of time; to an inmate, both are palpable.”Joseph Brodsky
- “I am no parasite.”Joseph Brodsky
- “The one who writes a poem writes it above all because verse writing is an extraordinary accelerator of consci…”Joseph Brodsky
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Books by Joseph Brodsky
Selected Poems, 1968-1996
2020
Less Than One
2020