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More Quotes by Yevgeny Yevtushenko
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else can only be a footnote.
In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.
One day posterity will remember these strange times, when ordinary common honesty was called courage.
Those who are used to a cage will weep for a cage.
When there is freedom of speech, I've found that the majority of people really have nothing to say.
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.
Envy is an insult to oneself.
Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy.