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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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- “Unlike life, a work of art never gets taken for granted: it is always viewed against its precursors and prede…”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
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Books by Joseph Brodsky
Selected Poems, 1968-1996
2020
Less Than One
2020