Yevgeny Yevtushenko Quotes

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

  Yevgeny Yevtushenko

  Truth, Lying, Silence

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

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  Honesty, One Day, Ordinary

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• Life is a rainbow which also includes black.

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  Love, Life, Rainbow

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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.

  Yevgeny Yevtushenko

  Kindness, Things In Life, Important

  "A Precocious Autobiography. Translated from the Russian by Andrew R. MacAndrew".

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• Unfortunately justice is the train that's nearly always late.

  Yevgeny Yevtushenko

  Justice, Late, Train

  "A Precocious Autobiography. Translated from the Russian by Andrew R. MacAndrew".

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• Envy is an insult to oneself.

  Yevgeny Yevtushenko

  Envy, Insult, Oneself

  Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko (1989). “Early Poems”, Marion Boyars Publishers

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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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  People, Freedom Of Speech, Majority

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• To partly remain a child: that is to be really mature.

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  Children, Mature

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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

  Beautiful, Faithful, Translations

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• Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.

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  Poetry, Bird, New Frontiers

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• Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy.

  Yevgeny Yevtushenko

  Happiness, Sadness, Sorrow

  Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko (1962). “Selected poems”

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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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  Strong, Power, Men

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

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  Freedom, Cages

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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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  Vegetables, Important, Onions

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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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  Death, Fighting, Kissing

  Yevgeny Yevtushenko (2008). “Yevtushenko: Selected Poems: Selected Poems”, p.73, Penguin UK

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

  Yevgeny Yevtushenko

  Courage, Believe, Russia

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• A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else can only be a footnote.

  Yevgeny Yevtushenko

  History, Poetry, Poetic

  "A Precocious Autobiography". Translated from the Russian by Andrew R. MacAndrew,

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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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  Believe, People, Literature

  New York Times, February 2, 1986.

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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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  Age, Gaps, Talent

  Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko (1989). “Early Poems”, Marion Boyars Publishers

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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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  Perfect, Healthy, Lovely

  New York Times, February 2, 1986.

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

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  Sympathy, Pain, Men

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

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  Cages, Vegetarian, Vegan

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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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  Fate, People, Planets

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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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  Fall, Wings, Shoulders

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• But time has a way of demonstrating the most stubborn are the most intelligent.

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  Time, Intelligent, Stubborn

  "Early Poems".

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