More Quotes by Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Unfortunately justice is the train that's nearly always late.
In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.
Be equal to your talent, not your age. At times let the gap between them be embarrassing.
No people are uninteresting. Their fate is like the chronicles of planets. Nothing in them is not particular, and planet is dissimilar from planet.
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.
In general, in poetry and literature, I am among those people who believe that too much is indispensable.
When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie.
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 any man who dies there dies with him his first snow and kiss and fight... Not people die but worlds die in them.
Be equal to your talent, not your age. At times let the gap between them be embarrassing.