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date: 21 January 2025

Joseph Brodsky 1940–96
Russian-born American poet 

  1. There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
    at a press conference at the Library of Congress, Washington, 17 May 1991 on his becoming poet laureate of the United States