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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 a patriot, but I must say that English poetry is the richest in the world.”Joseph Brodsky
- “It would be enough for me to have the system of a jury of twelve versus the system of one judge as a basis fo…”Joseph Brodsky
- “Every individual ought to know at least one poet from cover to cover: if not as a guide through the world, th…”Joseph Brodsky
- “What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.”Joseph Brodsky
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- “Well, I like how people talk. I like language. You know, Linda Richman spoke in Yiddish.”Mike Myers
- “I'm always interested in how people use language to not say what they mean.”Greta Gerwig
- “My parents are European immigrants. And I think as Europeans there are so many languages in close proximity t…”Stana Katic
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Books by Joseph Brodsky
Selected Poems, 1968-1996
2020
Less Than One
2020