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Andrey Voznesensky
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“Everything's sliding apart. Yet, "Long live everything!" For the art of creation Is older than the art of killing.”
Andrey Voznesensky (1933–2010) first seen 1978 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Lines to Robert Lowell"; translation by Louis Simpson and Vera Dunham, from Vera Dunham and Max Hayward (eds.) Nostalgia for the Present (New York: Doubleday, 1978) p. 111.
“It's shameful to spot a lie and not to name it, shameful to name it and then to shut your eyes, shameful to call a funeral a wedding and play the fool at funerals besides.”
Andrey Voznesensky (1933–2010) first seen 1974 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Stanley Kunitz (trans.) Story Under Full Sail (New York: Doubleday, 1974) p. 20.
“I am Goya of the bare field, by the enemy's beak gouged till the craters of my eyes gape I am grief I am the tongue of war, the embers of cities on the snows of the year 1941 I am hunger.”
Andrey Voznesensky (1933–2010) said by 2010 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I have hurled westward the ashes of the uninvited guest! and hammered stars into the unforgetting sky – like nails I am Goya.”
Andrey Voznesensky (1933–2010) said by 2010 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Along a parabola life like a rocket flies, Mainly in darkness, now and then on a rainbow.”
Andrey Voznesensky (1933–2010) said by 2010 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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.”
Andrey Voznesensky (1933–2010) said by 2010 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Akhmatova's seeming successor as the best living Russian poet is Voznesensky. His talent is dazzling. He has the gift of fresh, witty perception, works with unusual images and modern rhythms. His poetry is marvelously dynamic.”
Andrey Voznesensky (1933–2010) first seen 1966 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Olga Carlisle in The New York Times, September 11, 1966.
“With good reason, Voznesensky is a hero to all those in the Soviet Union who want their poets to tell them the truth. But at the risk of his career, freedom, and perhaps even his life, he has never been able to do much more than drop hints.”
Andrey Voznesensky (1933–2010) first seen 1983 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Clive James From the Land of Shadows (London: Picador, 1983) p. 222.