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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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- “I like the idea of isolation. I like the reality of it. You realize what you are... not that the knowledge is…”Joseph Brodsky
- “Writers seem mesmerized by the state - the temporal entity. The word 'perestroika' is impressed somehow on ou…”Joseph Brodsky
- “To translate poetry, one has to possess some art, at the very least the art of stylistic re-embodiment.”Joseph Brodsky
- “I began to despise Lenin, even when I was in the first grade, not so much because of his political philosophy…”Joseph Brodsky
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Books by Joseph Brodsky
Selected Poems, 1968-1996
2020
Less Than One
2020