Skip to content

Andrei Voznesensky

6 quotes in 38 categories

[Wikipedia] 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 Soviet intellectuals led by the Khrushchev Thaw.

Quotes by Andrei Voznesensky

The urge to kill, like the urge to beget, Is blind and sinister. Its craving is set Today on the flesh of…

Andrei Voznesensky

Begets

Image

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

Andrei Voznesensky

Birth

Image

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

Andrei Voznesensky

Believe

Image

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

Andrei Voznesensky

Spats

Image

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

Andrei Voznesensky

Funny

Image

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

Andrei Voznesensky

Can do

Image