Yevgeny Yevtushenko is a famous Poet from Russia, he/she is 90 years old and still alive, born July 18, 1933.
Zodiac:
He/she is born under the zodiac cancer, who is known for Emotion, Diplomatic, Intensity, Impulsive, Selective.
Our collection contains 15 quotes who is written / told by Yevgeny, under the main topic Poetry.
15 Famous quotes by Yevgeny Yevtushenko
"Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin"
"Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics"
"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 I am a true Russian"
"In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies"
"Why is it that right-wing bastards always stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals fall out among themselves?"
"Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy"
"Envy is an insult to oneself"
"A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote"
"Time has a way of demonstrating that the most stubborn are the most intelligent"
"Justice is like a train that is nearly always late"
"Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers"
"Translation is like a woman. If it is beautiful, it is not faithful. If it is faithful, it is most certainly not beautiful"
"He who is conceived in a cage yearns for the cage"
"Give me a mystery - just a plain and simple one - a mystery which is diffidence and silence, a slim little bare-foot mystery: give me a mystery - just one!"
"I love sport because I love life, and sport is one of the basic joys of life"
