Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky was a Soviet-Russian-American poet and essayist. He was expelled from the Soviet Union in 1972 for alleged "social parasitism" and settled in America with the help of W. H. Auden and other supporters. He taught thereafter at universities including those at Yale, Cambridge and Michigan. Brodsky was awarded the 1987 Nobel Prize in Literature "for an all-embracing authorship, imbued with clarity of thought and poetic intensity". He was appointed American Poet Laureate in 1991.. Russian poet and essayist
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The cynic, a parasite of civilization, lives by denying it, for the very reason that he is convinced that it will not fail. Go to Quote / Comment
An unemployed existence is a worse negation of life than death itself. Go to Quote / Comment
Civilization is nothing more than the effort to reduce the use of force to the last resort. Go to Quote / Comment
This is the generation whose first cry of life was the Hungarian uprising. Go to Quote / Comment
After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life. Go to Quote / Comment