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Joseph Brodsky

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For the poet the credo or doctrine is not the point of arrival but is, on the contrary, the point of departure for the metaphysical journey.


— Joseph Brodsky


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Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.


— Joseph Brodsky


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Man is what he reads.


— Joseph Brodsky


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Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production.


— Joseph Brodsky


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The poetic notion of infinity is far greater than that which is sponsored by any creed.


— Joseph Brodsky


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The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie.


— Joseph Brodsky


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This is the generation whose first cry of life was the Hungarian uprising.


— Joseph Brodsky


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What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.


— Joseph Brodsky


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Who included me among the ranks of the human race?


— Joseph Brodsky


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It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything.


— Joseph Brodsky


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Plays
1989: Marbles : a Play in Three Acts translated by Alan Myers with Joseph Brodsky. Brodsky dedicated much love poetry to Marina Basmanova:


Denunciation
In 1963 Brodsky's poetry was denounced by a Leningrad newspaper as "pornographic and anti-Soviet. ed.

He was appointed United States Poet Laureate in 1991. He taught thereafter at universities including those at Yale Cambridge and Michigan.

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