Top 6 Quotes & Sayings by Andrei Voznesensky

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Russian poet Andrei Voznesensky.
Last updated on December 22, 2024.
Andrei Voznesensky

Andrei Andreyevich Voznesensky was a Soviet and Russian poet and writer who had been referred to by Robert Lowell as "one of the greatest living poets in any language." He was one of the "Children of the '60s," a new wave of iconic Russian intellectuals led by the Khrushchev Thaw.

Poetry is the only hopeEven if you do not believe it, you have to do it.
If you want to change the world's spirit, I will suggest that only poetry can do this.
Poems have their own fates, like children. You have only to give birth to them. — © Andrei Voznesensky
Poems have their own fates, like children. You have only to give birth to them.
The times spat at me. I spit back at the times.
The urge to kill, like the urge to beget, Is blind and sinister. Its craving is set Today on the flesh of a hare: tomorrow it can Howl the same way for the flesh of a man.
Not all lines, not all images, survive their season.
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