Yevgeny Yevtushenko Quotes
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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.
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Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.
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Why is it that right-wing bastards always stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals fall out among themselves?
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Life is a rainbow which also includes black.
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Character begins to form at the first pinch of anxiety about ourselves.
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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.
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Here we have some people who call themselves Christians and they forget Jesus Christ was a Jew. Something like anti-Semitism is an artificial way of avoiding responsibility. You blame the problems in your country on someone else, on some group.
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Be equal to your talent, not your age. At times let the gap between them be embarrassing.
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One day posterity will remember these strange times, when ordinary common honesty was called courage.
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Those who are used to a cage will weep for a cage.
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He who is conceived in a cage, yearns for the cage.
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But time has a way of demonstrating the most stubborn are the most intelligent.
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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!
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In general, in poetry and literature, I am among those people who believe that too much is indispensable.
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Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics.
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To partly remain a child: that is to be really mature.
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I love sport because I love life, and sport is one of the basic joys of life.
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Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy.
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A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else can only be a footnote.
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Ever since then I have known that if all the values in this world are more or less questionable, the most important thing in life is kindness.
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In any man who dies there dies with him his first snow and kiss and fight... Not people die but worlds die in them.
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I do not like poems that resemble hay compressed into a geometrically perfect cube. I like it when the hay, unkempt, uncombed, with dry berries mixed in it, thrown together gaily and freely, bounces along atop some truck-and more, if there are some lovely and healthy lasses atop the hay-and better yet if the branches catch at the hay, and some of it tumbles to the road.
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When there is freedom of speech, I've found that the majority of people really have nothing to say.
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In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.
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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.
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Unfortunately justice is the train that's nearly always late.
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Everything I do, I do on the principle of Russian borscht. You can throw everything into it beets, carrots, cabbage, onions, everything you want. What's important is the result, the taste of the borscht.
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When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie.
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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.
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No people are uninteresting. Their fate is like the chronicles of planets. Nothing in them is not particular, and planet is dissimilar from planet.
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