“Everything's sliding apart.
Yet, "Long live everything!"
For the art of creation
Is older than the art of killing.”

—  Andrey Voznesensky

"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.

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