“I have hurled westward the ashes of the uninvited guest!
and hammered stars into the unforgetting sky – like nails
I am Goya.”

— Andrey Voznesensky

"I am Goya"; translated by Stanley Kunitz, p. 3.
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Soviet poet 1933–2010

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