Select Yevgeny Yevtushenko QuotationsLiterature has to serve as a moral control of politics. 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
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote. 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
