Quotes by Yevgeny Yevtushenko - Page 1

Envy is an insult to oneself.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko / Poet
Envy
Insult
Oneself
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Life is a rainbow which also includes black.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko / Poet
Love
Life
Rainbow
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Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko / Poet
Poetry
Bird
Frontiers
New Frontiers
Ignores
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He who is conceived in a cage yearns for the cage.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko / Poet
Cage
Conceived
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Those who are used to a cage will weep for a cage.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko / Poet
Cages
Vegan
Vegetarian
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He who is conceived in a cage, yearns for the cage.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko / Poet
Freedom
Cages
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Justice is like a train that is nearly always late.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko / Poet
Late
Train
Nearly
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To partly remain a child: that is to be really mature.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko / Poet
Children
Mature
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When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko / Poet
Truth
Lying
Silence
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Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko / Poet
Politics
Literature
Moral
Serve
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Unfortunately justice is the train that's nearly always late.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko / Poet
Justice
Late
Train
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In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko / Poet
Courage
Smile
Believe
Russia
Tyrants
Worst
Worst Enemy
Enemies
Poets
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Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin
Yevgeny Yevtushenko / Poet
Men
Sympathy
Pain
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Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko / Poet
Pain
Begin
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A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko / Poet
Poetry
Autobiography
Poet
Anything Else
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Character begins to form at the first pinch of anxiety about ourselves.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko / Poet
Anxiety
Character
Firsts
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A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else can only be a footnote.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko / Poet
History
Poetry
Poetic
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I love sport because I love life, and sport is one of the basic joys of life.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko / Poet
Life
Sports
Love Life
Squash
Life Love Love Life
Basic
Sport
Joys
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But time has a way of demonstrating the most stubborn are the most intelligent.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko / Poet
Time
Intelligent
Stubborn
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Time has a way of demonstrating that the most stubborn are the most intelligent.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko / Poet
Demonstrating
Intelligent
Stubborn
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Be equal to your talent, not your age. At times let the gap between them be embarrassing.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko / Poet
Age
Gaps
Talent
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When there is freedom of speech, I've found that the majority of people really have nothing to say.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko / Poet
Freedom Of Speech
Majority
People
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One day posterity will remember these strange times, when ordinary common honesty was called courage.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko / Poet
Honesty
One Day
Ordinary
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In general, in poetry and literature, I am among those people who believe that too much is indispensable.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko / Poet
Believe
Literature
People
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Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko / Poet
Happiness
Happens
Hardship
Hell
Sadness
Sorrow
Be Happy
Price
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In any man who dies there dies with him his first snow and kiss and fight... Not people die but worlds die in them.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko / Poet
Death
Men
Fighting
Kissing
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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.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko / Poet
Beautiful
Faithful
Translations
Most
Like
Certainly
Woman
Translation
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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 / Poet
Fall
Right Wing
Shoulders
Solidarity
Wings
Stand
Among
Bastards
Liberals
Shoulder
Themselves
While
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No Jewish blood runs among my blood,but I am as bitterly and hardly hatedby every anti-semiteas if I were a Jew. By thisI am a Russian.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko / Poet
Running
Blood
Jew
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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.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko / Poet
Power
Men
Strong
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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 / Poet
Blood
Callous
Hate
Rage
Hate I Am Me
Jewish
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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.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko / Poet
Kindness
Important
Things In Life
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No people are uninteresting. Their fate is like the chronicles of planets. Nothing in them is not particular, and planet is dissimilar from planet.
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Fate
People
Planets
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True sport is always a duel, a duel with nature, with one's own fear, with one's own fatigue, a duel in which the body and the mind are strengthened.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko / Poet
Nature
Fear
Sports
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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 / Poet
Diffidence
Feet
Give Me
Giving
Just One
Silence
Simple
Slim
Plain
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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.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko / Poet
Important
Onions
Vegetables
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He watched through a crack inside just pretending to be dead he wanted to fix each pallbearer in his memory . . . it seems to me a telephone was installed in the coffin to someone yet again Stalin is sending his instructions.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko / Poet
Cracks
Justice
Memories
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Here we have some people who call themselves Christians and they forget Jesus Christ was a Jew. Something like anti-Semitism is an artificial way of avoiding responsibility. You blame the problems in your country on someone else, on some group.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko / Poet
Jesus
Christian
Country
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I do not like poems that resemble hay compressed into a geometrically perfect cube. I like it when the hay, unkempt, uncombed, with dry berries mixed in it, thrown together gaily and freely, bounces along atop some truck-and more, if there are some lovely and healthy lasses atop the hay-and better yet if the branches catch at the hay, and some of it tumbles to the road.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko / Poet
Healthy
Lovely
Perfect
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