Excerpt from the Joseph Brodsky's Nobel speech.

On December 10, 1987, Joseph Brodsky was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "for comprehensive creativity imbued with clarity of thought and poetic intensity." The news of the award of a prestigious prize found the poet in London. At this point, he had lived abroad for several years. Brodsky was forced to leave the USSR in 1972, after having withstood pressure for almost a decade. Let us recall an excerpt from the poet’s Nobel speech.

"It is precisely in this applied, rather than Platonic, sense that we should understand Dostoevsky’s remark that beauty will save the world, or Matthew Arnold’s belief that we shall be saved by poetry. It is probably too late for the world, but for the individual man there always remains a chance".

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