Great Writers: Joseph Brodsky (Petersburg and the Whole World)

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Judge: So, what is your profession? Brodsky: Poet. Poet-translator. Judge: And who recognized you as a poet? Who counted you among poets? Brodsky: No one. (Without hesitation). And who counted me among the human race? Judge: Did you study for this? Brodsky: Study what? Judge: To be a poet? Didn’t you try to graduate from a university where they prepare... where they teach... Brodsky: I didn’t think that was something education provides. Judge: Then what is it? Brodsky: I think it’s... (hesitantly)... from God...

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