Quotes from Andrei Voznesensky

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

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

The art of creation is older than the art of killing.

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

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.