Yevgeny Yevtushenko Quotes

Envy is an insult to oneself.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Envy, Insult, Oneself

Time has a way of demonstrating that the most stubborn are the most intelligent.
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.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Beautiful, Woman, Faithful

Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Happiness, Happy, Hell

A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Poetry, Else, Poet

Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Poetry, Bird, Frontiers

Justice is like a train that is nearly always late.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Justice, Late, Train

Give me a mystery - just a plain and simple one - a mystery which is diffidence and silence, a slim little bare-foot mystery: give me a mystery - just one!
Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Simple, Silence, Give

He who is conceived in a cage yearns for the cage.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Cage, Conceived, Yearns

I love sport because I love life, and sport is one of the basic joys of life.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Life, Love, Basic

In my blood there is no Jewish blood. In their callous rage, all anti-Semites must hate me now as a Jew. For that reason I am a true Russian.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Hate, True, Reason

In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Worst, Russia, Poets

Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Politics, Control, Moral

Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Pain, Others, Sense

Why is it that right-wing bastards always stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals fall out among themselves?
Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Why, Themselves, While

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Biography

Nationality: Russian

Type: Poet

Born: July 18, 1933

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