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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
- “Once I stop being a citizen of the U.S.S.R., I will not stop being a Russian poet.”Joseph Brodsky
- “What makes art in general, and literature in particular, remarkable, what distinguishes them from life, is pr…”Joseph Brodsky
- “The invention of ethical and political doctrines, which blossomed into our own social sciences, is a product…”Joseph Brodsky
- “Translation is not original creation - that is what one must remember. In translation, some loss is inevitabl…”Joseph Brodsky
Art: more sayings
- “I started as a visual artist and I've always dealt with music in that same sort of way.”Black Thought
- “Tweets are not diseased rings of glitchy minds. They’re epigrams, aphorisms, maxims, dictums, taglines, capti…”Virginia Heffernan
- “Can art change the world? Maybe... we should change the question: Can art change people's lives?”JR
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Books by Joseph Brodsky
Selected Poems, 1968-1996
2020
Less Than One
2020