More Quotes by Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.
He who is conceived in a cage, yearns for the cage.
Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin
Translation is like a woman. If it is beautiful, it is not faithful. If it is faithful, it is most certainly not beautiful.
One day posterity will remember these strange times, when ordinary common honesty was called courage.
Those who are used to a cage will weep for a cage.
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.
In any man who dies there dies with him his first snow and kiss and fight... Not people die but worlds die in them.
Be equal to your talent, not your age. At times let the gap between them be embarrassing.
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else can only be a footnote.
