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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
No people are uninteresting. Their fate is like the chronicles of planets. Nothing in them is not particular, and planet is dissimilar from planet.
— Yevgeny Yevtushenko
All values in this world are more or less questionable, but the most important thing in life is human kindness.
— Yevgeny Yevtushenko
When there is freedom of speech, I've found that the majority of people really have nothing to say.
— Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Yevgeny Yevtushenko: 'You atheist?'Kingsley Amis: 'Well, yes, but it's more that I hate him. — Kingsley Amis
Justice is like a train that is nearly always late.
— Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Yevgeny Yevtushenko is a ham actor, not a poet.
— Allen Tate
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
— Yevgeny Yevtushenko
In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.
— Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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
No Jewish blood runs among my blood,but I am as bitterly and hardly hatedby every anti-semiteas if I were a Jew. By thisI am a Russian.
— Yevgeny Yevtushenko
I love sport because I love life, and sport is one of the basic joys of life.
— Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Life is a rainbow which also includes black.
— 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
Those who are used to a cage will weep for a cage.
— Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Why is it that right-wing bastards always stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals fall out among themselves?
— Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics.
— Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Be equal to your talent, not your age. At times let the gap between them be embarrassing.
— Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin.
— Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Character begins to form at the first pinch of anxiety about ourselves.
— Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.
— Yevgeny Yevtushenko
They tell me, shaking their heads:"You should be kinder. You are somehow furious".
I used to be kind. It didn't last long. — Yevgeny Yevtushenko
In any man who dies there dies with him, his first snow and kiss and fight. Not people die but worlds die in them.
— Yevgeny Yevtushenko
One day posterity will remember these strange times, when ordinary common honesty was called courage.
— Yevgeny Yevtushenko
In general, in poetry and literature, I am among those people who believe that too much is indispensable.
— Yevgeny Yevtushenko
He who is conceived in a cage yearns for the cage.
— Yevgeny Yevtushenko
When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie.
— Yevgeny Yevtushenko
There is no need to fear the strong. All one needs is to know the method of overcoming them. There is a special jujitsu for every strong man.
— Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Envy is an insult to oneself.
— Yevgeny Yevtushenko
