Voznesensky Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Even a priest may doubt. Even a prophet may know terror. Aeron Damphair reached within himself for his god and discovered only silence.

George R R Martin

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

Andrei Voznesensky

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

Andrei Voznesensky

#5. 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

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

Andrei Voznesensky

#7. I asked him what his work was. He answered that he devoted all his time to his political activities ... He was undoubtedly busy with the diplomatic relations between his testicles and women's breast.

Marjane Satrapi

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

Andrei Voznesensky

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

Andrei Voznesensky

#10. I don't know how I feel right now.

Brandy Norwood

#11. Time, the foe of man's dominion,
Wheels around in ceaseless flight,
Scattering from his hoary pinion
Shades of everlasting night.

Thomas Love Peacock

#12. I grew up in a family in which there was very little religion. My father wasn't religious at all. But he was really interested in the subject of, you know, the birth and growth of Islam. And he basically transmitted that interest to me.

Salman Rushdie