Age Quote by 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 thisI am…

— 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 that reason…

— 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 don't belong…

— 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