More Quotes by Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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.
Those who are used to a cage will weep for a cage.
Envy is an insult to oneself.
In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.
Translation is like a woman. If it is beautiful, it is not faithful. If it is faithful, it is most certainly not beautiful.
Be equal to your talent, not your age. At times let the gap between them be embarrassing.
Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.
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.
Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin
