Joseph Brodsky quote: I belong to the Russian language. As to the state, from my point of view, the measure of a writer's ...

I belong to the Russian language. As to the state, from my point of view, the measure of a writer's patriotism is not oaths from a high platform, but how he writes in the language of the people among whom he lives.

~ Joseph Brodsky ~

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