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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No matter under what circumstances you leave it, home does not cease to be home. No matter how you lived there-well or poorly. Go to Quote / Comment
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
We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving. Go to Quote / Comment
To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat. Go to Quote / Comment
The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration. Go to Quote / Comment