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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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- “American poetry is this country's greatest patrimony. It takes a stranger to see some things clearly. This is…”Joseph Brodsky
- “Poems, novels - these things belong to the nation, to the culture, and the people.”Joseph Brodsky
- “The mechanics of love imply some sort of bridge between the sensual and the spiritual, sometimes to the point…”Joseph Brodsky
- “Nothing convinces an artist more of the arbitrariness of the means to which he resorts to attain a goal - how…”Joseph Brodsky
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Books by Joseph Brodsky
Selected Poems, 1968-1996
2020
Less Than One
2020