I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul when a man who looks at himself is so ashamed that he tries to make some sort of change - within himself, not on the outside.

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.