Iosip Aleksandrovich Brodsky , (Russian:Ио́сиф Алекса́ндрович Бро́дский, better known as Joseph Brodsky) (May 24, 1940 – January 28, 1996), was a Russian-American poet, winner of the 1987 Nobel Prize in Literature, and Poet Laureate of the United States for 1991-1992.
- It is the army that finally makes a citizen of you; without it you still have a chance, however slim, to remain a human being.
- The formula for prison is a lack of space counterbalanced by a surplus of time.