Yevgeny Yevtushenko Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by Yevgeny Yevtushenko:

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/yevgeny-yevtushenko-quotes/#85f97b52

Envy is an insult to oneself.
~Yevgeny Yevtushenko


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/yevgeny-yevtushenko-quotes/#93e43f8c

Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.
~Yevgeny Yevtushenko


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/yevgeny-yevtushenko-quotes/#70bd07f2

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/yevgeny-yevtushenko-quotes/#b4756414

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/yevgeny-yevtushenko-quotes/#843e7e92

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/yevgeny-yevtushenko-quotes/#c214050d

Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics.
~Yevgeny Yevtushenko


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/yevgeny-yevtushenko-quotes/#167eb7e0

Justice is like a train that is nearly always late.
~Yevgeny Yevtushenko


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/yevgeny-yevtushenko-quotes/#202fd7f2

He who is conceived in a cage yearns for the cage.
~Yevgeny Yevtushenko


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/yevgeny-yevtushenko-quotes/#3ef3c78f

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/yevgeny-yevtushenko-quotes/#6d60a821

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/yevgeny-yevtushenko-quotes/#f9858b6a

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/yevgeny-yevtushenko-quotes/#560c8477

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/yevgeny-yevtushenko-quotes/#35fd6309

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/yevgeny-yevtushenko-quotes/#af246f54

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/yevgeny-yevtushenko-quotes/#30ca3aca

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