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“ American poetry is this country's greatest patrimony. It takes a stranger to see some things clearly. This is one of them, and I am that stranger. ”

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Life—the way it really is—is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse

~ Joseph Brodsky

...in the business of writing what one accumulates is not expertise but uncertainties. Which is but another name for craft.

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... Now to die of griefwould mean, I'm afraid, to die belatedly, while latecomersare unwelcome, particularly in the future. ...

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There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

~ Joseph Brodsky