A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote. ~Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Poetry Autobiography Just
Envy is an insult to oneself. ~Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Envy Oneself Insult
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
Silence Simple Me
He who is conceived in a cage yearns for the cage. ~Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Cage Conceived He
I love sport because I love life, and sport is one of the basic joys of life. ~Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Life Love Love Life
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
I Am Hate Me
In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies. ~Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Believe Worst Russia
Justice is like a train that is nearly always late. ~Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Justice Late Train
Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics. ~Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Politics Control Moral
Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin. ~Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Pain Man Others
Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers. ~Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Poetry Bird Like
Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy. ~Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Happiness Happy Be Happy
Time has a way of demonstrating that the most stubborn are the most intelligent. ~Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Time Intelligent Stubborn
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
Beautiful Woman Faithful
Why is it that right-wing bastards always stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals fall out among themselves? ~Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Fall Stand Solidarity