Andrei Voznesensky famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Poems have their own fates, like children. You have only to give birth to them.
-- Andrei Voznesensky

#Children #Fate #Giving
Not all lines, not all images, survive their season.
-- Andrei Voznesensky

#Lines
Poetry is the only hopeEven if you do not believe it, you have to do it.
-- Andrei Voznesensky

#Believe #Poetry Is
The times spat at me. I spit back at the times.
-- Andrei Voznesensky

#Spit #Spats
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

#Men #Flesh #Today

There is no wonder more supernatural and divine in the life of a believer than the mystery and ministry of prayer...the hand of the child touching the arm of the Father and moving the wheel of the universe.
When we have accepted Jesus Christ, we have become akin to the Father; having become real children of God, we then have the spirit of sonship by which we can come into His presence and make known our wants in a familiar way.
I was a narrative historian, believing more and more as I matured that the first function of the historian was to answer the child's question, "What happened next?
Elderly gentlemen, gentle in all respects, kind to animals, beloved by children, and fond of music, are found in lonely corners of the downs, hacking at sandpits or tussocks of grass, and muttering in a blind, ungovernable fury elaborate maledictions which could not be extracted from them by robbery or murder. Men who would face torture without a word become blasphemous at the short fourteenth. It is clear that the game of golf may well be included in that category of intolerable provocations which may legally excuse or mitigate behavior not otherwise excusable.
The music had to be rooted, and yet had to branch out,like the wild imagination of a child.
Everything. I have done everything you wanted...You asked that the child be taken. I took him. You cowered before me. I was frightening...I have reordered time...I have turned the world upside down...And I have done it all for you. I am exhausted from living up to your expectations.
Hey Nana, If Cinderella's glass slipper fits so perfectly, I wonder why it fell off along the way? I can't help but think that it was on purpose, to attract the prince's affections. No matter what I do, I'll still have the fate of a girl who just keeps getting hurt, wondering if she can be happy in this pointless, one man show?
Hey Nana, do you remember the first time we met? I beleive in things like fate. So I think it was fate.
A diary need not be a dreary chronicle of one's movements; it should aim rather at giving salient account of some particular episode, a walk, a book, a conversation.
Conformity may give you a quiet life; it may even bring you to a University Chair. But all change in history, all advance, comes from the nonconformists. If there had been no trouble-makers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves.

Andrei Voznesensky famous quotes

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