More Quotes by Yevgeny Yevtushenko
He who is conceived in a cage, yearns for the 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.
There is no need to fear the strong. All one needs is to know the method of overcoming them. There is a special jujitsu for every strong man.
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.
In any man who dies there dies with him his first snow and kiss and fight... Not people die but worlds die in them.
When there is freedom of speech, I've found that the majority of people really have nothing to say.
Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.