More Quotes by Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Envy is an insult to oneself.
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.
No people are uninteresting. Their fate is like the chronicles of planets. Nothing in them is not particular, and planet is dissimilar from planet.
Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy.
Translation is like a woman. If it is beautiful, it is not faithful. If it is faithful, it is most certainly not beautiful.
Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin
In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.
In general, in poetry and literature, I am among those people who believe that too much is indispensable.
In any man who dies there dies with him his first snow and kiss and fight... Not people die but worlds die in them.
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.
