Yevgeny Yevtushenko Quotes

"Justice is like a train that is nearly always late."
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
(Related: Justice)

"Why is it that right-wing bastards always stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals fall out among themselves?"
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
(Related: Liberals, Right, Solidarity)

"Time has a way of demonstrating that the most stubborn are the most intelligent."
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
(Related: Time)

"Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers."
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
(Related: Poetry)

"Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin."
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
(Related: Man, Pain, Sense)

"Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics."
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
(Related: Politics, Control, Literature)

"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
(Related: Blood, Hate, Now, Reason)

"I love sport because I love life, and sport is one of the basic joys of life."
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
(Related: Life, Love)

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

"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
(Related: Mystery, Silence)

"Envy is an insult to oneself."
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
(Related: Envy, Insult)

"A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote."
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
(Related: Poetry, Autobiography)

"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
(Related: Woman)

"In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies."
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
(Related: Enemies, Poets, Russia)