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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) →Other sayings from Joseph Brodsky
- “Literature is a far more ancient and viable thing than any social formation or state. And just as the state i…”Joseph Brodsky
- “It's not that prison makes you shed your abstract notions. On the contrary, it pares them down to their most…”Joseph Brodsky
- “Contrary to popular belief, the outskirts are not where the world ends - they are precisely where it begins t…”Joseph Brodsky
- “Life - the way it really is - is a battle not between Bad and Good but between Bad and Worse.”Joseph Brodsky
Poetry: more sayings
- “inspiration. five minutes in the back of a greyhound bus; the world passing by.a gateway to freedom.the ameri…”K.R. Albers
- “If you ask a twenty-one-year-old poet whose poetry he likes, he might say, unblushing, "Nobody's," In his you…”Annie Dillard
- “[Kieran]his head propped on a stack of poetry books he’d brought from the library. Almost all of them had bee…”Cassandra Clare
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Books by Joseph Brodsky
Selected Poems, 1968-1996
2020
Less Than One
2020