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Yevgeny Yevtushenko Quotes A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote. Yevgeny Yevtushenko He who is conceived in a cage yearns for the cage. Yevgeny Yevtushenko A show of envy is an insult to oneself. Yevgeny Yevtushenko In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies. Yevgeny Yevtushenko Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers. Yevgeny Yevtushenko Justice is like a train that is nearly always late. Yevgeny Yevtushenko Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin. Yevgeny Yevtushenko Why is it that right-wing bastards always stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals fall out among themselves? Yevgeny Yevtushenko In general, in poetry and literature, I am among those people who believe that too much is indispensable. Yevgeny Yevtushenko Everything I do, I do on the principle of Russian borscht. You can throw everything into it - beets, carrots, cabbage, onions, everything you want. What's important is the result, the taste of the borscht. Yevgeny Yevtushenko Give me a mystery - just a plain and simple one - a mystery which is diffidence and silence, a slim little, barefoot mystery: give me a mystery - just one! Yevgeny Yevtushenko | |