"A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else……" — Yevgeny Yevtushenko
"A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote."
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Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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30 Quotes by Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Yevgeny Yevtushenko has 30 quotes on this site.
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Life is a rainbow which also includes black.
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I love sport because I love life, and sport is one of the basic joys of life.
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Everything I do, I do on the principle of Russian borscht. You can throw everything into it beets, carrots, cabbage,…
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Give me a mystery - just a plain and simple one - a mystery which is diffidence and silence, a…
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Justice is like a train that is nearly always late.
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True sport is always a duel, a duel with nature, with one's own fear, with one's own fatigue, a duel…
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Those who are used to a cage will weep for a cage.
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All values in this world are more or less questionable, but the most important thing in life is human kindness.
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In my blood there is no Jewish blood. In their callous rage, all anti-Semites must hate me now as a…
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In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.
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Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics.
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He watched through a crack inside just pretending to be dead he wanted to fix each pallbearer in his memory…
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More Anything Else Quotes
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I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn't think I…
— Paul Auster
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Apart from anything else, I am designed by evolution, like we all are: if we see a little thing like…
— David Attenborough
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A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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I think I hate cynicism more than anything else. It's the curse of our age, and I want to avoid…
— Paul Auster
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Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else…
— Richard Bach
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Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?
— James A. Baldwin
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What you think means more than anything else in your life. More than what you earn, more than where you…
— George Matthew Adams
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No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else.
— Henry Adams
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You know, when you get your first asparagus, or your first acorn squash, or your first really good tomato of…
— Mario Batali
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I give everything I have to give on the screen. I feel I don't owe the public anything else.
— Emmanuelle Beart
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Rest until you feel like playing, then play until you feel like resting, period. Never do anything else.
— Martha Beck
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