More Quotes by Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin
One day posterity will remember these strange times, when ordinary common honesty was called courage.
There is no need to fear the strong. All one needs is to know the method of overcoming them. There is a special jujitsu for every strong man.
In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.
Envy is an insult to oneself.
Life is a rainbow which also includes black.
When there is freedom of speech, I've found that the majority of people really have nothing to say.
Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.
Ever since then I have known that if all the values in this world are more or less questionable, the most important thing in life is kindness.
He who is conceived in a cage, yearns for the cage.