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May 24, 1940 – January 28, 1996

Iosip Aleksandrovich Brodsky (Russian: ?????? ?????????????? ?????????, usually anglicized as Joseph Brodsky) (24 May 1940 – 28 January 1996) was a Russian-American poet, winner of the 1987 Nobel Prize in Literature, and Poet Laureate of the United States for 1991–1992.

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For darkness restores what light cannot repair. There we are married, blest, we make once more the two-backed beast and children are the fair excuse of what we're naked for.

Quoted in: Drusilla Modjeska, ?Beth Yahp (1995) Picador New Writing. Vol. 3-4, p. 13

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The formula for prison is a lack of space counterbalanced by a surplus of time. This is what really bothers you, that you can't win. Prison is lack of alternatives, and the telescopic predictability of the future is what drives you crazy.

Joseph Brodsky
— p. 28 (Less Than One: Selected Essays (1986))

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Man is what he reads.

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May 24, 1940 – January 28, 1996

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