22 Inspiring Quotes by Yevgeny Yevtushenko

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

Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics.

Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin.

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.

There is no need to fear the strong. All one needs is to know the method of overcoming them. There is a special jujitsu for every strong man.

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

Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.

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

Unfortunately justice is the train that's nearly always late.

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.

Ever since then I have known that if all the values in this world are more or less questionable, the most important thing in life is kindness.

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

Translation is like a woman. If it is beautiful, it is not faithful. If it is faithful, it is most certainly not beautiful.

Envy is an insult to oneself.

When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie.

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

In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.

In any man who dies there dies with him his first snow and kiss and fight... Not people die but worlds die in them.