More Quotes by Yevgeny Yevtushenko
When there is freedom of speech, I've found that the majority of people really have nothing to say.
To partly remain a child: that is to be really mature.
Unfortunately justice is the train that's nearly always late.
He who is conceived in a cage, yearns for the cage.
Life is a rainbow which also includes black.
Translation is like a woman. If it is beautiful, it is not faithful. If it is faithful, it is most certainly not beautiful.
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 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.
One day posterity will remember these strange times, when ordinary common honesty was called courage.
