Quotes by Yevgeny Yevtushenko
He who is conceived in a cage, yearns for the cage.
In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.
Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.
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.
Be equal to your talent, not your age. At times let the gap between them be embarrassing.
In any man who dies there dies with him his first snow and kiss and fight... Not people die but worlds die in them.
Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin
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.
Why is it that right-wing bastards always stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals fall out among themselves?
Translation is like a woman. If it is beautiful, it is not faithful. If it is faithful, it is most certainly not beautiful.
One day posterity will remember these strange times, when ordinary common honesty was called courage.
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.
When there is freedom of speech, I've found that the majority of people really have nothing to say.
Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy.
To partly remain a child: that is to be really mature.
Those who are used to a cage will weep for a cage.
But time has a way of demonstrating the most stubborn are the most intelligent.
No people are uninteresting. Their fate is like the chronicles of planets. Nothing in them is not particular, and planet is dissimilar from planet.
When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie.
In general, in poetry and literature, I am among those people who believe that too much is indispensable.