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Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Russian
Poet
About the author
Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko,
Russian
Poet
#Will
#Hell
#Sorrow
#Happiness
#Hardship
Justice is like a train that is nearly always late.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko,
Russian
Poet
#Justice
Why is it that right-wing bastards always stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals fall out among themselves?
Yevgeny Yevtushenko,
Russian
Poet
#Right
#Solidarity
#Liberals
Time has a way of demonstrating that the most stubborn are the most intelligent.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko,
Russian
Poet
#Time
Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko,
Russian
Poet
#Poetry
Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko,
Russian
Poet
#Man
#Sense
#Pain
Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko,
Russian
Poet
#Control
#Literature
#Politics
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,
Russian
Poet
#Now
#Reason
#Hate
#Blood
I love sport because I love life, and sport is one of the basic joys of life.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko,
Russian
Poet
#Life
#Love
He who is conceived in a cage yearns for the cage.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko,
Russian
Poet
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,
Russian
Poet
#Mystery
#Silence
Envy is an insult to oneself.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko,
Russian
Poet
#Insult
#Envy
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko,
Russian
Poet
#Poetry
#Autobiography
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,
Russian
Poet
#Woman
In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko,
Russian
Poet
#Enemies
#Poets
#Russia