More Quotes by Yevgeny Yevtushenko
One day posterity will remember these strange times, when ordinary common honesty was called courage.
Envy is an insult to oneself.
Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.
In any man who dies there dies with him his first snow and kiss and fight... Not people die but worlds die in them.
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else can only be a footnote.
Translation is like a woman. If it is beautiful, it is not faithful. If it is faithful, it is most certainly not beautiful.
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.
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.
Those who are used to a cage will weep for a cage.
