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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
- “For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language.”Joseph Brodsky
- “After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it…”Joseph Brodsky
- “On the whole, infinity is a fairly palpable aspect of this business of publishing, if only because it extends…”Joseph Brodsky
- “[T]he accumulation of things not spelled out, not properly articulated, may result in neurosis.”Joseph Brodsky
Reflections: more sayings
- “I had grown up watching Amitabh Bachchan act. And here I was exchanging dialogues with him. For me, that was…”Uday Chopra
- “Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people.”Earl Nightingale
- “If I am shot at, I want no man to be in the way of the bullet.”Andrew Johnson
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Books by Joseph Brodsky
Selected Poems, 1968-1996
2020
Less Than One
2020