More Quotes by Yevgeny Yevtushenko
When there is freedom of speech, I've found that the majority of people really have nothing to say.
In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else can only be a footnote.
To partly remain a child: that is to be really mature.
Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin
Life is a rainbow which also includes black.
When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie.
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.
In any man who dies there dies with him his first snow and kiss and fight... Not people die but worlds die in them.
