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If a poet has any obligation toward society, it is to write well. Being in the minority, he has no other choice. Failing this duty, he sinks into oblivion. Society, on the other hand, has no obligation toward the poet.

Source: Less Than One: Selected Essays, To Please a Shadow, sct. 2 (1986; first published 1983).
-- 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.

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