No matter under what circumstances you leave it, home does not cease to be home. No matter how you lived there — well or poorly.

Joseph Brodsky (1940-1996) Russian-American poet, essayist, Nobel laureate, US Poet Laureate [Iosif Aleksandrovič Brodskij]
New York Times (1 Oct 1972)

On being expelled from the USSR that year.


 
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