More Quotes by Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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.
Envy is an insult to oneself.
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else can only be a footnote.
In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.
He who is conceived in a cage, yearns for the cage.
Translation is like a woman. If it is beautiful, it is not faithful. If it is faithful, it is most certainly not beautiful.
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.
Unfortunately justice is the train that's nearly always late.
When there is freedom of speech, I've found that the majority of people really have nothing to say.
