More Quotes by Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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.
In general, in poetry and literature, I am among those people who believe that too much is indispensable.
Be equal to your talent, not your age. At times let the gap between them be embarrassing.
One day posterity will remember these strange times, when ordinary common honesty was called courage.
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 there is freedom of speech, I've found that the majority of people really have nothing to say.
Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.
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.
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else can only be a footnote.
