Andrei Voznesensky Quotes

• Poems have their own fates, like children. You have only to give birth to them.

  Andrei Voznesensky

  Children, Fate, Giving

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• The times spat at me. I spit back at the times.

  Andrei Voznesensky

  Spit, Spats

  "When Poets Rocked Russia's Stadiums" by Dwight Garner, www.nytimes.com. June 2, 2010.

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• If you want to change the world's spirit, I will suggest that only poetry can do this.

  Andrei Voznesensky

  World, Want, Spirit

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• Not all lines, not all images, survive their season.

  Andrei Voznesensky

  Lines, Seasons

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• 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.

  Andrei Voznesensky

  Men, Flesh, Today

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• Poetry is the only hopeEven if you do not believe it, you have to do it.

  Andrei Voznesensky

  Believe, Poetry Is, Ifs

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