Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Justice is like a train that is nearly always late.

— Yevgeny Yevtushenko

In general, in poetry and literature, I am among those people who believe that too much is indispensable.

— Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Envy is an insult to oneself.

— Yevgeny Yevtushenko

No Jewish blood runs among my blood,but I am as bitterly and hardly hatedby every anti-semiteas if I were a Jew. By…

— Yevgeny Yevtushenko

He who is conceived in a cage yearns for the cage.

— Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Why is it that right-wing bastards always stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals fall out among themselves?

— Yevgeny Yevtushenko

To partly remain a child: that is to be really mature.

— Yevgeny Yevtushenko

In my blood there is no Jewish blood. In their callous rage, all anti-Semites must hate me now as a Jew. For…

— Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Those who are used to a cage will weep for a cage.

— Yevgeny Yevtushenko

“And how I flattered myself From time to time with proving to myself Nothing in you could be unknown to me. You…

— Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Life is a rainbow which also includes black.

— Yevgeny Yevtushenko

One day posterity will remember these strange times, when ordinary common honesty was called courage.

— Yevgeny Yevtushenko

He watched through a crack inside just pretending to be dead he wanted to fix each pallbearer in his memory . .…

— Yevgeny Yevtushenko

“no one sleeps more beautifully than you. But i am afraid that you will waken just now, and touch me with an…

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Ever since then I have known that if all the values in this world are more or less questionable, the most important…

— Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics.

— Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Time has a way of demonstrating that the most stubborn are the most intelligent.

— Yevgeny Yevtushenko

“Who never knew the price of happiness will not be happy.”

— Yevgeny Yevtushenko

True sport is always a duel, a duel with nature, with one's own fear, with one's own fatigue, a duel in which…

— Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Character begins to form at the first pinch of anxiety about ourselves.

— Yevgeny Yevtushenko

“While you're alive it's shameful to worm your way into the Calendar of Saints. Disbelief in yourself is more saintly. It takes…

— Yevgeny Yevtushenko

When there is freedom of speech, I've found that the majority of people really have nothing to say.

— Yevgeny Yevtushenko

All values in this world are more or less questionable, but the most important thing in life is human kindness.

— Yevgeny Yevtushenko

A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else can only be a footnote.

— Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy.

— Yevgeny Yevtushenko