"I remember myself, age five, sitting on a porch overlooking a very muddy road. The day was rainy. I was wearing rubber boots, yellow - no, not yellow, green - and for all I know, I'm still there."
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Joseph Brodsky, born on May 24, 1940, in Leningrad, Russia, emerged as a profound voice in 20th-century poetry, earning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1987. His early life was marked by adversity, including expulsion from the Soviet Union, which fueled his exploration of themes like exile and identity. Brodsky's work, characterized by its lyrical intensity and intellectual depth, continues to resonate, bridging cultures and languages. His legacy transcends borders, influencing countless writers while advocating for the power of the human spirit through words.
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"What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness."
Joseph Brodsky
"I belong to the Russian language. As to the state, from my point of view, the measure of a writer's patriotism is not oaths from a high platform, but how he writes in the language of the people among whom he lives."
Joseph Brodsky
"If what distinguishes us from other species is speech, then poetry, which is the supreme linguistic operation, is our anthropological - indeed, genetic - goal."
Joseph Brodsky
"Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production."
Joseph Brodsky"Prison is essentially a shortage of space made up for by a surplus of time; to an inmate, both are palpable."
Joseph Brodsky