"[F]or a man whose mother tongue is Russian to speak about political evil is as natural as digestion [...]"
— Joseph Brodsky

January 1, 1970

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Joseph Brodsky, Nobel Lecture (1987), translated from the Russian by Barry Rubin, from Nobel Lectures, Literature 1981-1990, Ed. Tore Frängsmyr, Sture Allén, Singapore, 1993 external link