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

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

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

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“I have tried in my way to be free.”
“The modern haematologist, instead of describing in English what he can see, prefers to describe in Greek what he can’t.”

Source : British Medical Journal 2: 359 (1959)
“God is always more interested in why we do something than in what we do. Attitudes count more than achievements.”
“It always interested me that 'Goodness Gracious Me' and 'The Kumars,' when shown around the world, were referred to as British comedy. It was only here that they were referred to as Asian comedy, even though I always felt it was very British in its humour and structure.”
“I exercise daily to keep my figure. I keep patting my hand against the bottom of my chin. It works too. I have the thinnest fingers in town.”
“If Britney Spears can party it up in Vegas with one of her boys and go get married on a whim and annul her marriage the next day, why can't a loving same sex couple tie the knot?”

Source : "Same Sex Marriages: What’s the Big Deal?". www.huffingtonpost.com. May 24, 2009.
“I am a very big admirer of Hillary 's and I am an admirer of Obama as well.”

Source : BBC's "Question Time", September 18, 2008.
“Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.”

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