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Joseph Brodsky was a 20th-century Russian poet. Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky, anglicized as Joseph, was a Russian and American poet and essayist. Read more on Wikipedia →

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  • Art — Creativity, expression, and the role of art in society

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“Lifethe way it really isis a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse”
— Joseph Brodsky
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“For darkness restores what light cannot repair.”
— Joseph Brodsky
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“...in the business of writing what one accumulates is not expertise but uncertainties. Which is but another name for craft.”
— Joseph Brodsky
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“... Now to die of griefwould mean, I'm afraid, to die belatedly, while latecomersare unwelcome, particularly in the future. ...”
— Joseph Brodsky
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“[T]he accumulation of things not spelled out, not properly articulated, may result in neurosis.”
— Joseph Brodsky
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“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
— Joseph Brodsky
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