Yevgeny Yevtushenko quotes
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“When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie.”
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“Envy is an insult to oneself.”
-- Yevgeny YevtushenkoSource : Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko (1989). “Early Poems”, Marion Boyars Publishers
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“A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.”
-- Yevgeny YevtushenkoSource : "A Precocious Autobiography". Translated from the Russian by Andrew R. MacAndrew,
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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 YevtushenkoSource : Yevgeny Yevtushenko (2008). “Yevtushenko: Selected Poems: Selected Poems”, p.73, Penguin UK
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“Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin”
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“Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.”
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“All values in this world are more or less questionable, but the most important thing in life is human kindness.”
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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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“Time has a way of demonstrating that the most stubborn are the most intelligent.”
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“He who is conceived in a cage, yearns for the cage.”
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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.”
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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.”
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“Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy.”
-- Yevgeny YevtushenkoSource : Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko (1962). “Selected poems”
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“Those who are used to a cage will weep for a 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?”
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“Justice is like a train that is nearly always late.”
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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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“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.”
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“In general, in poetry and literature, I am among those people who believe that too much is indispensable.”
-- Yevgeny YevtushenkoSource : New York Times, February 2, 1986.
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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.”
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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.”
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“One day posterity will remember these strange times, when ordinary common honesty was called courage.”
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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.”
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“Character begins to form at the first pinch of anxiety about ourselves.”
-- Yevgeny YevtushenkoSource : Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko (1989). “Early Poems”, Marion Boyars Publishers
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“When there is freedom of speech, I've found that the majority of people really have nothing to say.”
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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.”
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“Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics.”
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“In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.”
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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!”
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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.”
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“I love sport because I love life, and sport is one of the basic joys of life.”
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“Life is a rainbow which also includes black.”
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“Be equal to your talent, not your age. At times let the gap between them be embarrassing.”
-- Yevgeny YevtushenkoSource : Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko (1989). “Early Poems”, Marion Boyars Publishers
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