Quotes by Yevgeny Yevtushenko

About Yevgeny Yevtushenko:

Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko is a Soviet and Russian poet. He is also a novelist, essayist, dramatist, screenwriter, actor, and editor, and a director of several films.
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How can the confessor teach/ those who are lost and sick at heart,/ when he himself, among the sinners,/ is worst, and most forsaken?/ It is only a game we play/ with other people's sins./ Besides, everyone knows/ that everyone lies confessing.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

I love sport because I love life, and sport is one of the basic joys of life.

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Time has a way of demonstrating that the most stubborn are the most intelligent.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Envy is an insult to oneself.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

He who is conceived in a cage yearns for the cage.

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Why is it that right-wing bastards always stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals fall out among themselves?

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Give me a mystery - just a plain and simple one - a mystery which is diffidence and silence, a slim little bare-foot mystery: give me a mystery - just one!

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

In my blood there is no Jewish blood. In their callous rage, all anti-Semites must hate me now as a Jew. For that reason I am a true Russian.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin.

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Translation is like a woman. If it is beautiful, it is not faithful. If it is faithful, it is most certainly not beautiful.

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Justice is like a train that is nearly always late.

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When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie.

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Quand la vérité est remplacée par le silence, le silence est un mensonge

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no one sleeps more beautifully than you. But i am afraid that you will waken just now, and touch me with an indifferent glance, lightly passing, and commit the murder of beauty.

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Author Bio

  • NameYevgeny Yevtushenko
  • DescriptionRussian poet, film director, teacher
  • AliasesCategory:Evgeny Evtushenko
  • BornJuly 18, 1933
  • CountrySoviet Union; Russia
  • ProfessionPoet; Novelist; Screenwriter; Writer; Director
  • AwardsUSSR State Prize; Order Of The Badge Of Honour; Order For Services To The Fatherland 3rd Degree