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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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- “Bookstores should be located not only on campuses or on main drags, but at the assembly plant's gates, also.”Joseph Brodsky
- “I simply think that water is the image of time, and every New Year's Eve, in somewhat pagan fashion, I try to…”Joseph Brodsky
- “Any dispute in matters of taste usually results in a standoff.”Joseph Brodsky
- “Whoever it was who said that to philosophize is an exercise in dying was right in more ways than one, for by…”Joseph Brodsky
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- “I think I'd want Tommen'to fight the Hound! And the Mountain! The Hound and the Mountain on one side, and Tom…”Dean-Charles Chapman
- “Live by publicity, you'll probably die by publicity.”Russell Baker
- “I had good parents. My mother had morals and standards and she brought us up to be good kids - some of the fa…”Jimmy Somerville
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Books by Joseph Brodsky
Selected Poems, 1968-1996
2020
Less Than One
2020