W.H. Auden on Andrei Voznesensky

The Russian poet Andrei Voznesensky passed on June 1, 2010. His obituary can be read at The New York Times. I had a familiarity with some of his poetry (in an anthology compiled by Yevgeny Yevtushenko). To me, two comments by W. H. Auden in a 1966 article at The New York Review of Books was particularly interesting: 

a poet who knows that, whatever else it may be, a poem is a verbal artifact which must be as skillfully and solidly constructed as a table or a motor-bicycle.

and

One of the...