More Quotes by Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Be equal to your talent, not your age. At times let the gap between them be embarrassing.
Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy.
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.
He who is conceived in a cage, yearns for the cage.
When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie.
One day posterity will remember these strange times, when ordinary common honesty was called courage.
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else can only be a footnote.
Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.
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.
