"Translation is like a woman. If it is……" — Yevgeny Yevtushenko
"Translation is like a woman. If it is beautiful, it is not faithful. If it is faithful, it is most certainly not beautiful."
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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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But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed…
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The worse my drawings were, the more beautiful did the originals appear.
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