Andrei Voznesensky Quotes

Russia, Poet
May 12, 1933 – June, 1, 2010.

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.

Also known as Writer

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
- Urge
- Craving
- Howl
Not all lines, not all images, survive their season.

Andrei Voznesensky
- Lines
- Images
- Survived

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

Andrei Voznesensky
- Birth
- Poems
- Fates
The times spat at me. I spit back at the times.

Andrei Voznesensky
- Back
- Times
- Spat
Poetry is the only hope.Even if you do not believe it, you have to do it.

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

Andrei Voznesensky
- Change
- Poetry
- Spirit