“My love will come will fling open her arms and fold me in them, will understand my fears, observe my changes. In from the pouring dark, from the pitch night without stopping to bang the taxi door she’ll run upstairs… — 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 Image
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 Image
Why is it that right-wing bastards always stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals fall out among themselves? — Yevgeny Yevtushenko Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
One day posterity will remember these strange times, when ordinary common honesty was called courage. — Yevgeny Yevtushenko Copy Share Image