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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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- “To put it mildly, nothing can be turned and worn inside out with greater ease than one's notion of social jus…”Joseph Brodsky
- “Anyone who regards poetry as an entertainment, as a 'read,' commits an anthropological crime, in the first pl…”Joseph Brodsky
- “I don't suppose that I know more about life than anyone of my age, but it seems to me that, in the capacity o…”Joseph Brodsky
- “In order to live in a different country, you have to love something there. You have to love something there.…”Joseph Brodsky
Language: more sayings
- “So, what are you going to do about it?”"Watch this!""Oh, that’s just freaking great. ‘Watch this!’ The two mo…”Theodore Jerome Cohen
- “The modern progressive movement believes that dissenting language is objectionable, which then removes the br…”Greg Gutfeld
- “And at the risk of sounding like Andy Rooney on Sixty Minutes, have you ever wondered why we say fiddle-faddl…”Steven Pinker
Explore Poetry
- “i sometimes think i'm too in love with alone.who could i love more than this peace?”AVA.
- “Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.”Gustave Flaubert
- “So bashful when I spied her!So pretty ― so ashamed!So hidden in her leafletsLest anybody find ―So breathless…”Emily Dickinson
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Books by Joseph Brodsky
Selected Poems, 1968-1996
2020
Less Than One
2020