More Quotes by Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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.
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else can only be a footnote.
When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie.
Those who are used to a cage will weep for a cage.
In any man who dies there dies with him his first snow and kiss and fight... Not people die but worlds die in them.
Envy is an insult to oneself.
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.
To partly remain a child: that is to be really mature.
Life is a rainbow which also includes black.
In general, in poetry and literature, I am among those people who believe that too much is indispensable.
