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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In order to master the unruly torrent of life the learned man meditates, the poet quivers, and the political hero erects the fortress of his will. Go to Quote / Comment
We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create. Go to Quote / Comment
Better beware of notions like genius and inspiration; they are a sort of magic wand and should be used sparingly by anybody who wants to see things clearly. Go to Quote / Comment
An unemployed existence is a worse negation of life than death itself. Go to Quote / Comment
The poetic notion of infinity is far greater than that which is sponsored by any creed. Go to Quote / Comment