More Quotes by Yevgeny Yevtushenko
In general, in poetry and literature, I am among those people who believe that too much is indispensable.
No people are uninteresting. Their fate is like the chronicles of planets. Nothing in them is not particular, and planet is dissimilar from planet.
In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.
One day posterity will remember these strange times, when ordinary common honesty was called courage.
He who is conceived in a cage, yearns for the cage.
Be equal to your talent, not your age. At times let the gap between them be embarrassing.
Everything I do, I do on the principle of Russian borscht. You can throw everything into it beets, carrots, cabbage, onions, everything you want. What's important is the result, the taste of the borscht.
Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.
When there is freedom of speech, I've found that the majority of people really have nothing to say.
Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin