More Quotes by Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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.
Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy.
Envy is an insult to oneself.
In general, in poetry and literature, I am among those people who believe that too much is indispensable.
Unfortunately justice is the train that's nearly always late.
Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin
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.
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else can only be a footnote.
In any man who dies there dies with him his first snow and kiss and fight... Not people die but worlds die in them.
When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie.