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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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- “Nothing convinces an artist more of the arbitrariness of the means to which he resorts to attain a goal - how…”Joseph Brodsky
- “Beginning a poem, the poet as a rule doesn't know the way it's going to come out, and at times, he is very su…”Joseph Brodsky
- “Yevtushenko is a high member of his country's establishment, and he lies terribly about the United States to…”Joseph Brodsky
- “A person sets out to write a poem for a variety of reasons: to win the heart of his beloved; to express his a…”Joseph Brodsky
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- “But what I do know is this: you got to find your own places. The places you get, girl, the ones that stick in…”Kirsten Hubbard
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Books by Joseph Brodsky
Selected Poems, 1968-1996
2020
Less Than One
2020