More Quotes by Yevgeny Yevtushenko
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else can only be a footnote.
In general, in poetry and literature, I am among those people who believe that too much is indispensable.
Be equal to your talent, not your age. At times let the gap between them be embarrassing.
When there is freedom of speech, I've found that the majority of people really have nothing to say.
In any man who dies there dies with him his first snow and kiss and fight... Not people die but worlds die in them.
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.
One day posterity will remember these strange times, when ordinary common honesty was called courage.
Be equal to your talent, not your age. At times let the gap between them be embarrassing.
Life is a rainbow which also includes black.
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.