Joseph Brodsky Poet
- Gender: Male
- Citizenship: United States
- Born: May 24, 1940
- Died: Jan 28, 1996
Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky was a Jewish poet and essayist.
Born in Leningrad in 1940, Brodsky ran afoul of Soviet authorities and was expelled from the Soviet Union in 1972, settling 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 United States Poet Laureate in 1991.
Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production.
poetry
Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.
family & friendship
For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language.
attitudes & patriotism
What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.
beauty
The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie.
history
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.
work
It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything.
education