Yevgeny Yevtushenko famous quotes

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

#Truth #Lying #Silence

Envy is an insult to oneself.
-- Yevgeny Yevtushenko

#Envy #Insult #Oneself

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

#History #Poetry #Poetic

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

#Death #Kissing #Fighting

Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin
-- Yevgeny Yevtushenko

#Sympathy #Pain #Men

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

#Poetry #Bird #Poetry Is

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

#Kindness #Important #World

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

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

#Time #Intelligent #Stubborn

He who is conceived in a cage, yearns for the cage.
-- Yevgeny Yevtushenko

#Freedom #Cages

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.
-- Yevgeny Yevtushenko

#Sports #Fear #Mind

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

#Hate #Blood #Rage

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

#Happiness #Sadness #Sorrow

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

#Cages #Used

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

#Fall #Wings #Shoulders

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

#Justice #Train

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

#Fate #People #Planets

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

#Running #Blood #Jew

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

#Believe #People #Literature

[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.
-- Yevgeny Yevtushenko

#Perfect #Healthy #Lovely

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.
-- Yevgeny Yevtushenko

#Christian #Country #Jesus

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

#Honesty #One Day #Politics

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

#Strong #Power #Men

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

#Character #Anxiety #Firsts

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

#People #Freedom Of Speech #Majority

He watched through a crack inside just pretending to be dead he wanted to fix each pallbearer in his memory . . . it seems to me a telephone was installed in the coffin to someone yet again Stalin is sending his instructions.
-- Yevgeny Yevtushenko

#Memories #Coffins #Telephones

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

#Literature #Moral

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

#Believe #Tyrants #Russia

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

#Simple #Feet #Giving

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.
-- Yevgeny Yevtushenko

#Vegetables #Important #Onions

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

#Sports #Love Life #Joy

Life is a rainbow which also includes black.
-- Yevgeny Yevtushenko

#Inspirational Life #Rainbow #Black

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

#Age #Gaps #Talent