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Yevgeny Yevtushenko

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Envy is an insult to oneself.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
I love sport because I love life, and sport is one of the basic joys of life.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Time has a way of demonstrating that the most stubborn are the most intelligent.
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
Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Justice is like a train that is nearly always late.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Why is it that right-wing bastards always stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals fall out among themselves?
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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
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
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
All values in this world are more or less questionable, but the most important thing in life is human kindness.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
He who is conceived in a cage yearns for the cage.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko

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