Yevgeny Yevtushenko Quotes

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

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

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!

One day posterity will remember these strange times, when ordinary common honesty was called courage.

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.

Unfortunately justice is the train that's nearly always late.

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

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.

A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else can only be a footnote.

Life is a rainbow which also includes black.

Envy is an insult to oneself.

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

Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.

But time has a way of demonstrating the most stubborn are the most intelligent.

In any man who dies there dies with him his first snow and kiss and fight... Not people die but worlds die in them.

To partly remain a child: that is to be really mature.

In general, in poetry and literature, I am among those people who believe that too much is indispensable.

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

When there is freedom of speech, I've found that the majority of people really have nothing to say.

Character begins to form at the first pinch of anxiety about ourselves.

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.

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.

No people are uninteresting. Their fate is like the chronicles of planets. Nothing in them is not particular, and planet is dissimilar from planet.

Be equal to your talent, not your age. At times let the gap between them be embarrassing.

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

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

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

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.

Those who are used to a cage will weep for a cage.

Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics.

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

A show of envy is an insult to oneself.

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

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.

They tell me, shaking their heads:"You should be kinder. You are somehow furious".I used to be kind. It didn’t last long.

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

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