Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Soviet and Russian poet (1933-2017)

Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenkowas a Soviet and Russian poet, novelist, essayist, dramatist, screenwriter, publisher, actor, editor, university professor, and director of several films.

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About the Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenkowas a Soviet and Russian poet, novelist, essayist, dramatist, screenwriter, publisher, actor, editor, university professor, and director of several films.

15 Quotes by Yevgeny Yevtushenko

  1. 1.

    Justice is like a train that is nearly always late.

    Yevgeny Yevtushenko

    Soviet and Russian poet (1933-2017)

  2. 2.

    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

    Soviet and Russian poet (1933-2017)

  3. 3.

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

    Yevgeny Yevtushenko

    Soviet and Russian poet (1933-2017)

  4. 4.

    Envy is an insult to oneself.

    Yevgeny Yevtushenko

    Soviet and Russian poet (1933-2017)

  5. 5.

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

    Yevgeny Yevtushenko

    Soviet and Russian poet (1933-2017)

  6. 6.

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

    Yevgeny Yevtushenko

    Soviet and Russian poet (1933-2017)

  7. 7.

    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

    Soviet and Russian poet (1933-2017)

  8. 8.

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

    Yevgeny Yevtushenko

    Soviet and Russian poet (1933-2017)

  9. 9.

    Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics.

    Yevgeny Yevtushenko

    Soviet and Russian poet (1933-2017)

  10. 10.

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

    Yevgeny Yevtushenko

    Soviet and Russian poet (1933-2017)

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

    Yevgeny Yevtushenko

    Soviet and Russian poet (1933-2017)

  12. 12.

    Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.

    Yevgeny Yevtushenko

    Soviet and Russian poet (1933-2017)

  13. 13.

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

    Yevgeny Yevtushenko

    Soviet and Russian poet (1933-2017)

  14. 14.

    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

    Soviet and Russian poet (1933-2017)

  15. 15.

    A poet’s autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.

    Yevgeny Yevtushenko

    Soviet and Russian poet (1933-2017)