“Something dangerous is beginning: I am coming late to my own self. I made an appointment with my thoughts- the thoughts were snatched from me. I made an appointment with Faulkner- but they made me go to a banquet. I… — Yevgeny Yevtushenko Copy Share Image
In general, in poetry and literature, I am among those people who believe that too much is indispensable. — Yevgeny Yevtushenko Copy Share
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… — Yevgeny Yevtushenko Copy Share
Why is it that right-wing bastards always stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals fall out among themselves? — Yevgeny Yevtushenko Copy Share
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… — Yevgeny Yevtushenko Copy Share
“And how I flattered myself From time to time with proving to myself Nothing in you could be unknown to me. You don't belong… — Yevgeny Yevtushenko Copy Share
One day posterity will remember these strange times, when ordinary common honesty was called courage. — Yevgeny Yevtushenko Copy Share
He watched through a crack inside just pretending to be dead he wanted to fix each pallbearer in his memory . . . it… — Yevgeny Yevtushenko Copy Share
“no one sleeps more beautifully than you. But i am afraid that you will waken just now, and touch me with an indifferent glance,… — yevgeny yevtushenko Copy Share
Ever since then I have known that if all the values in this world are more or less questionable, the most important thing in… — Yevgeny Yevtushenko Copy Share
