More Quotes by Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Translation is like a woman. If it is beautiful, it is not faithful. If it is faithful, it is most certainly not beautiful.
Unfortunately justice is the train that's nearly always late.
He who is conceived in a cage, yearns for the cage.
One day posterity will remember these strange times, when ordinary common honesty was called courage.
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.
Envy is an insult to oneself.
In general, in poetry and literature, I am among those people who believe that too much is indispensable.
No people are uninteresting. Their fate is like the chronicles of planets. Nothing in them is not particular, and planet is dissimilar from planet.
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else can only be a footnote.
Life is a rainbow which also includes black.
