More Quotes by Yevgeny Yevtushenko
In general, in poetry and literature, I am among those people who believe that too much is indispensable.
Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.
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.
Life is a rainbow which also includes black.
No people are uninteresting. Their fate is like the chronicles of planets. Nothing in them is not particular, and planet is dissimilar from planet.
In any man who dies there dies with him his first snow and kiss and fight... Not people die but worlds die in them.
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.
There is no need to fear the strong. All one needs is to know the method of overcoming them. There is a special jujitsu for every strong man.
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.
