Every individual ought to know at least one poet from cover to cover: if not as a guide through the world, then as a yardstick for the language. (Joseph Brodsky)

Every individual ought to know at least one poet from cover to cover: if not as a guide through the world, then as a yardstick for the language.

Joseph Brodsky

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