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Yevgeny Yevtushenko quotes: Translation is like a woman. If it is beautiful, it is not faithful. If it is faithful, it is most certainly not beautiful.

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 quotes: No people are uninteresting. Their fate is like the chronicles of planets. Nothing in them is not particular, and planet is dissimilar from planet.

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 quotes: All values in this world are more or less questionable, but the most important thing in life is human kindness.

All values in this world are more or less questionable, but the most important thing in life is human kindness.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko quotes: When there is freedom of speech, I've found that the majority of people really have nothing to say.

When there is freedom of speech, I've found that the majority of people really have nothing to say.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko quotes: Character begins to form at the first pinch of anxiety about ourselves.

Character begins to form at the first pinch of anxiety about ourselves.

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

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

Yevgeny Yevtushenko quotes: Those who are used to a cage will weep for a cage.

Those who are used to a cage will weep for a cage.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko quotes: 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.

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 quotes: Life is a rainbow which also includes black.

Life is a rainbow which also includes black.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko quotes: I love sport because I love life, and sport is one of the basic joys of life.

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

Yevgeny Yevtushenko quotes: 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.

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

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

Yevgeny Yevtushenko quotes: Who never knew the price of happiness will not be happy.

Who never knew the price of happiness will not be happy.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko quotes: In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.

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

Yevgeny Yevtushenko quotes: A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.

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

Yevgeny Yevtushenko quotes: Justice is like a train that is nearly always late.

Justice is like a train that is nearly always late.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko quotes: Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics.

Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko quotes: Be equal to your talent, not your age. At times let the gap between them be embarrassing.

Be equal to your talent, not your age. At times let the gap between them be embarrassing.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko quotes: Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin.

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

Yevgeny Yevtushenko quotes: Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.

Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko quotes: They tell me, shaking their heads:"You should be kinder. You are somehow furious".I used to be kind. It didn't last long.

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 quotes: In any man who dies there dies with him, his first snow and kiss and fight. Not people die but worlds die in them.

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 quotes: One day posterity will remember these strange times, when ordinary common honesty was called courage.

One day posterity will remember these strange times, when ordinary common honesty was called courage.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko quotes: In general, in poetry and literature, I am among those people who believe that too much is indispensable.

In general, in poetry and literature, I am among those people who believe that too much is indispensable.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko quotes: He who is conceived in a cage yearns for the cage.

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

Yevgeny Yevtushenko quotes: When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie.

When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko quotes: 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.

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 quotes: Envy is an insult to oneself.

Envy is an insult to oneself.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko quotes: True sport is always a duel, a duel with nature, with one's own fear, with one's own fatigue, a duel in which the body and the mind are strengthened.

True sport is always a duel, a duel with nature, with one's own fear, with one's own fatigue, a duel in which the body and the mind are strengthened.