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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
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
Poetry and Ambition
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A beautiful poem by Mary Oliver. The last line is 🔥
When death comes
like the hungry bear in autumn;
when death comes and takes all the bright coins from his purse
to buy me, and snaps the purse shut;
when death comes
like ... See more
Why do we read and write poetry? (Dead Poets Society)
youtube.comWe will be known as a culture that feared death
and adored power, that tried to vanquish insecurity
for the few and cared little for the penury of the
many. We will be known as a culture that taught
and rewarded the amassing of things, that spoke
little if at all about the quality of life for
people (other people), for dogs, for rivers. All
the world, in
... See moreNobel Lecture by Jon Fosse, Nobel Laureate in Literature 2023
Jon Fosse reflects on his journey as a writer, influenced by childhood fear, solitude, and listening. He discusses the power of literature, silence, and the significance of the Nobel Prize.
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