More Quotes by Yevgeny Yevtushenko
In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.
One day posterity will remember these strange times, when ordinary common honesty was called courage.
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else can only be a footnote.
Be equal to your talent, not your age. At times let the gap between them be embarrassing.
He who is conceived in a cage, yearns for the cage.
Life is a rainbow which also includes black.
Unfortunately justice is the train that's nearly always late.
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.
Translation is like a woman. If it is beautiful, it is not faithful. If it is faithful, it is most certainly not beautiful.
When there is freedom of speech, I've found that the majority of people really have nothing to say.
