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More Quotes by Yevgeny Yevtushenko
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else can only be a footnote.
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.
One day posterity will remember these strange times, when ordinary common honesty was called courage.
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.
Translation is like a woman. If it is beautiful, it is not faithful. If it is faithful, it is most certainly not beautiful.
Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.
In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.
Unfortunately justice is the train that's nearly always late.
Be equal to your talent, not your age. At times let the gap between them be embarrassing.
