More Quotes by Yevgeny Yevtushenko
No people are uninteresting. Their fate is like the chronicles of planets. Nothing in them is not particular, and planet is dissimilar from planet.
Translation is like a woman. If it is beautiful, it is not faithful. If it is faithful, it is most certainly not beautiful.
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.
Envy is an insult to oneself.
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.
Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.
Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy.
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.
Be equal to your talent, not your age. At times let the gap between them be embarrassing.
