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Yevgeny Yevtushenko Quotes
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Type: Poet Quotes Category: Russian Poet Quotes Date of Birth: July 18, 1933 Nationality: Russian Find on Amazon: Yevgeny Yevtushenko Related Authors: Ralph Waldo Emerson Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Samuel Butler Sophocles Ovid Alexander Pope Horace Kahlil Gibran |
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko Envy is an insult to oneself. Yevgeny Yevtushenko 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 He who is conceived in a cage yearns for the cage. Yevgeny Yevtushenko I love sport because I love life, and sport is one of the basic joys of life. Yevgeny Yevtushenko 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 In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies. Yevgeny Yevtushenko Justice is like a train that is nearly always late. Yevgeny Yevtushenko Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics. Yevgeny Yevtushenko No, Stalin did not die. He thinks that death can be fixed. We removed him from the mausoleum. But how do we remove Stalin from Stalin's heirs? Yevgeny Yevtushenko Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin. Yevgeny Yevtushenko Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers. Yevgeny Yevtushenko Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy. Yevgeny Yevtushenko 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 Why is it that right-wing bastards always stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals fall out among themselves? Yevgeny Yevtushenko |
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