Yevgeny Yevtushenko Quotes

Best Quotes by Yevgeny Yevtushenko (Top 10)

When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie.
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A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
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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!
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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 any man who dies there dies with him his first snow and kiss and fight... Not people die but worlds die in them.
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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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Justice is like a train that is nearly always late.
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Envy is an insult to oneself.
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Be equal to your talent, not your age. At times let the gap between them be embarrassing.
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Time has a way of demonstrating that the most stubborn are the most intelligent.
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Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy.
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Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.
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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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Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin
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He who is conceived in a cage, yearns for the cage.
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In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.
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Here we have some people who call themselves Christians and they forget Jesus Christ was a Jew. Something like anti-Semitism is an artificial way of avoiding responsibility. You blame the problems in your country on someone else, on some group.
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