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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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- “It's not that prison makes you shed your abstract notions. On the contrary, it pares them down to their most…”Joseph Brodsky
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- “Life - the way it really is - is a battle not between Bad and Good but between Bad and Worse.”Joseph Brodsky
- “For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language.”Joseph Brodsky
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Books by Joseph Brodsky
Selected Poems, 1968-1996
2020
Less Than One
2020