More Quotes by Yevgeny Yevtushenko
One day posterity will remember these strange times, when ordinary common honesty was called courage.
Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.
Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin
In general, in poetry and literature, I am among those people who believe that too much is indispensable.
He who is conceived in a cage, yearns for the 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.
In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.
Envy is an insult to oneself.
When there is freedom of speech, I've found that the majority of people really have nothing to say.
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.
