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Joseph Brodsky

Joseph Brodsky

Joseph Brodsky (May 24, 1940 - January 28, 1996), born Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky was a Russian poet and essayist who won the 1987 Nobel Prize in Literature and was Poet Laureate of the United States from 1991 to 1992

1940-05-24 São Petersburgo, Rússia
1996-01-28 Brooklyn, Nova Iorque, EUA
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Awards and Movements

Nobel 1987

Some Poems

I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul when a man who looks at himself is so ashamed that he tries to make some sort of change-within himself, not on the outside.
In the works of the better poets you get the sensation that they're not talking to people any more, or to some seraphical creature. What they're doing is simply talking back to the language itself --as beauty, sensuality, wisdom, irony --those aspects of language of which the poet is a clear mirror. Poetry is not an art or a branch of art, it's something more. If what distinguishes us from other species is speech, then poetry, which is the supreme linguistic operation, is our anthropological, indeed genetic, goal. Anyone who regards poetry as an entertainment, as a read, commits an anthropological crime, in the first place, against himself.
Life-the way it really is-is a battle not between Bad and Good but between Bad and Worse.
If a poet has any obligation toward society, it is to write well. Being in the minority, he has no other choice. Failing this duty, he sinks into oblivion. Society, on the other hand, has no obligation toward the poet. A majority by definition, society thinks of itself as having other options than reading verses, no matter how well written. Its failure to do so results in its sinking to that level of locution at which society falls easy prey to a demagogue or a tyrant. This is society's own equivalent of oblivion.
For aesthetics is the mother of ethics. Were we to choose our leaders on the basis of their reading experience and not their political programs, there would be much less grief on earth. I believe-not empirically, alas, but only theoretically-that for someone who has read a lot of Dickens to shoot his like in the name of an idea is harder than for someone who has read no Dickens.
No matter under what circumstances you leave it, home does not cease to be home. No matter how you lived there-well or poorly.
What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.
Every writing career starts as a personal quest for sainthood, for self-betterment. Sooner or later, and as a rule quite soon, a man discovers that his pen accomplishes a lot more than his soul.
The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even -- if you will -- eccentricity. That is, something that can't be feigned, faked, imitated; something even a seasoned imposter couldn't be happy with.
Racism? But isn't it only a form of misanthropy?
Joseph Brodsky: A Maddening Space.
"A Song" by Joseph Brodsky
Fragment of the interview with Joseph Brodsky in English
A Song by Joseph Brodsky - "I wish you were here, dear...."
Do repressive systems produce greater literature? George Steiner, Joseph Brodsky, Mary McCarthy 1982
Joseph Brodsky - Inspirational Quotes That You Should Hear
Joseph Brodsky - The John Adams Institute
Иосиф Бродский — На независимость Украины / Joseph Brodsky — On Ukrainian Independence
Joseph Brodsky recites "Nature Morte" / Иосиф Бродский, "Натюрморт" 1989 (subtitled Eng, Rus)
JOSEPH BRODSKY IN THE PRISON OF LATITUDES TRAILER 1080 EN mp4
Joseph BRODSKY – Poète russe, Citoyen américain (DOCUMENTAIRE, 1989)
75 at 75: Mark Strand on Joseph Brodsky
ИОСИФ БРОДСКИЙ ЧИТАЕТ СТИХИ. Видео. | JOSEPH BRODSKY recites poetry. Video.
Joseph Brodsky - in Venice
Joseph Brodsky -- Almost an Elegy
JOSEPH BRODSKY
Joseph Brodsky from nowhere with love
6 Ways to Live Better by Joseph Brodsky
Amherst College: LitFest 2021 -- The Poet’s Prose: Rereading Joseph Brodsky’s Essays Today
Iósif Brodsky
Joseph Brodsky
DAKOOKA — Joseph Brodsky (Official Video)
Yes the Raven “A Song” (words by Joseph Brodsky)
Richard Wilbur - Translating Joseph Brodsky's 'Six Years Later' (28/83)
Joseph Brodsky – Elegie an John Donne. Gesprochen von Christian Reiner | ECM Records
Joseph Brodsky reads 'Odysseus to Telemachus'
Evgeny Rein reads his poetry to Joseph Brodsky RARE
Daily Poetry, Day 45: 1 January 1965, by Joseph Brodsky
Joseph Brodsky Quotes that tell a lot about ourselves
Joseph Brodsky informal reading
5 Poems by Joseph Brodsky
"Bosnia Tune" by Joseph Brodsky (read by Tom O'Bedlam)
Apocrypha (Апокриф) - New York, I love you (Joseph Brodsky)
trailer: Joseph Brodsky: In the Prison of Latitudes
JOSEPH BRODSKY ИОСИФ БРОДСКИЙ RSI
Joseph Brodsky: The Wisdom of a Nobel Prize Winner
Joseph Brodsky - in Venice
Бродский и Венеция, Brodsky and Venice.
"Song Of Welcome" Poem - Joseph Brodsky / Иосиф Бродский, Music - Olga Amelchenko
Joseph Brodsky
Aurora Bernardini: Literatura Russa - Joseph Brodsky
Joseph Brodsky about life
Frammenti di Joseph Brodsky- primo
4 Poems by Joseph Brodsky: No. 3. Farewell and Forget
Joseph Brodsky
Роттердамский дневник - Joseph Brodsky [INT.E5]
Alexander Khubeev - Don't leave the room (on text by Joseph Brodsky)
Joseph Brodsky #motivation #love #quotes #poetry
Joseph Brodsky -Canción de Amor-
Frammenti di Joseph Brodsky

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