More Quotes by Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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.
Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin
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.
Translation is like a woman. If it is beautiful, it is not faithful. If it is faithful, it is most certainly not beautiful.
He who is conceived in a cage, yearns for the cage.
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else can only be a footnote.
In general, in poetry and literature, I am among those people who believe that too much is indispensable.
One day posterity will remember these strange times, when ordinary common honesty was called courage.
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.
Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.
