Andrei Voznesensky quotes
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“Poems have their own fates, like children. You have only to give birth to them.”
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“Not all lines, not all images, survive their season.”
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“Poetry is the only hopeEven if you do not believe it, you have to do it.”
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“The times spat at me. I spit back at the times.”
-- Andrei VoznesenskySource : "When Poets Rocked Russia's Stadiums" by Dwight Garner, www.nytimes.com. June 2, 2010.
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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
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“The music had to be rooted, and yet had to branch out,like the wild imagination of a child.”
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Source : "The Trouble Makers: Dissent over Foreign Policy, 1792-1939". Book by A. J. P. Taylor, "The Radical Tradition: Fox, Paine, and Cobbett", p. 14, 1957.
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