Voznesensky Quotes & Sayings

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

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

Poetry is the only hopeEven if you do not believe it, you have to do it. — Andrei Voznesensky

The times spat at me. I spit back at the times. — Andrei Voznesensky

The 1960s was a period when writers in the West began to be aware of the extraordinary eloquence and popular attraction of the Russian poets such as Yevtushenko and Voznesensky - oppositional figures who could draw crowds. The Russian poets recited from memory as a matter of course. — James Fenton

Not all lines, not all images, survive their season. — Andrei Voznesensky

Poems have their own fates, like children. You have only to give birth to them. — Andrei Voznesensky