Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.
About Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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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Justice is like a train that is nearly always late.
Soviet and Russian poet (1933-2017)
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!
Soviet and Russian poet (1933-2017)
Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy.
Soviet and Russian poet (1933-2017)
Envy is an insult to oneself.
Soviet and Russian poet (1933-2017)
In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.
Soviet and Russian poet (1933-2017)
I love sport because I love life, and sport is one of the basic joys of life.
Soviet and Russian poet (1933-2017)
Translation is like a woman. If it is beautiful, it is not faithful. If it is faithful, it is most certainly not beautiful.
Soviet and Russian poet (1933-2017)
Time has a way of demonstrating that the most stubborn are the most intelligent.
Soviet and Russian poet (1933-2017)
Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics.
Soviet and Russian poet (1933-2017)
He who is conceived in a cage yearns for the cage.
Soviet and Russian poet (1933-2017)
Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin.
Soviet and Russian poet (1933-2017)
Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.
Soviet and Russian poet (1933-2017)
Why is it that right-wing bastards always stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals fall out among themselves?
Soviet and Russian poet (1933-2017)
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.
Soviet and Russian poet (1933-2017)
A poet’s autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
Soviet and Russian poet (1933-2017)