I admire Joseph for his industry, his valor, and his intelligence. He's a terrific example of someone who is a complete poet, who doesn't treat poetry as anything else but a very hard job that he does as well as he can. Lowell worked very hard too, but you feel in Joseph that that is all he lives for. In a sense that's all any of us lives for or can hope to live for. Joseph's industry is an example that I cherish a great deal.
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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 →