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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.
Source: Less Than One: Selected Essays, To Please a Shadow, sct. 5 (1986; first published 1983). Brodsky recommended W. H. Auden as qualified on both counts.
-- Joseph Brodsky, (May 24 1940-1996), Russian-US poet; He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1987 for his important lyric and elegiac poems; first foreign-born US poet laureate, 1991.