Joseph Brodsky

1940–1996 · Russian-American poet

Joseph Brodsky was a Russian-American poet and Nobel laureate. His public advocacy of reading makes the attribution plausible, but plausibility is not a substitute for a primary transcript.

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“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them”

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