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Quotation by Joseph Brodsky
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"A Commencement Address" Less Than One: Selected Essays (1986)"A Poet and Prose" Less Than One: Selected Essays (1986)"Flight from Byzantium" Less Than One: Selected Essays (1986)interview in Writers at Work Eighth Series, ed. George Plimpton (1988)"Less Than One" Less Than One: Selected Essays (1986)
Tragedy, as you know, is always a fait accompli, whereas terror always has to do with anticipation, with man's recognition of his own negative potential—with his sense of what he is capable of.
Joseph Brodsky (b. 1940), Russian–born U.S. poet, critic. "On Grief and Reason," The New Yorker (September 26, 1994).
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