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Losif Aleksandrovich Brodsky was a Russian and American 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 the United States.
James Clear • Joseph Brodsky Explains Perfectly How to Deal With Critics and Detractors in Your Life
Thanks to the help of some fellow poets, Brodsky was able to find refuge in the United States and soon he had teaching positions at Yale, Cambridge, and the University of Michigan. In 1991, nineteen years after being exiled from the Soviet Union (and what must have seemed like an entirely different lifetime), Brodsky was appointed the United States... See more
James Clear • Joseph Brodsky Explains Perfectly How to Deal With Critics and Detractors in Your Life
Joseph Brodsky points out, beautifully, that an object makes infinity private.
John O'Donohue • Anam Cara: 25th Anniversary Edition
Joseph Brodsky Explains Perfectly How to Deal With Critics and Detractors in Your Life
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The morning before he died in the final year of his seventies, he drafted a poem containing these lines:
You can’t tell when strange things with meaning... See more
will happen. I’m [still] here writing it down
just the way it was. “You don’t have to
prove anything,” my mother said. “Just be ready
for what God sends.” I listened and put my hand
out in the sun again.
Maria Popova • Yes: William Stafford’s Poetic Calibration of Perspective
Thus with cautious steps, among deceived enemies, I circulated, plated with poetry, armored with rhymes, stout with another man’s song, stiff with cardboard, bullet-proof at long last.