Poems have their own fates, like children. You have only to give birth to them.
Andrei Voznesensky
2.
If you want to change the world's spirit, I will suggest that only poetry can do this.
Andrei Voznesensky
3.
The times spat at me. I spit back at the times.
Andrei Voznesensky
4.
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
5.
Poetry is the only hopeEven if you do not believe it, you have to do it.
