It's shameful to spot a lie and not to name it, shameful to… - Andrei Voznesensky

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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.

Andrei Voznesensky

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About Andrei Voznesensky

Andrey Andreyevich Voznesensky (May 12, 1933 – June 1, 2010) was one of the group of Russian poets who first came to notice during the Khrushchev era. He is often compared and contrasted with his friend Yevtushenko.

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Alternative Names: Andrei Voznesenskii • Andrei Andreevich Voznesenskii • Andrei Andreyevich 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.

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.

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.

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 foo… - Andrei Voznesensky

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