Yevgeny Yevtushenko Quotes

Russian - Poet | July 18, 1933 -

I love sport because I love life, and sport is one of the basic joys of life.

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LifeLoveLove LifeBecauseBasic

Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.

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BirdPoetryLikeFrontiersIgnores

Envy is an insult to oneself.

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EnvyInsultOneself

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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SimpleSilenceMeMysteryLittle

A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.

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PoetryAnythingPoetAutobiography

He who is conceived in a cage yearns for the cage.

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CageWhoHeConceived

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

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BelieveWorstEnemiesRussiaTyrants

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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BeautifulWomanFaithfulTranslation

Time has a way of demonstrating that the most stubborn are the most intelligent.

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TimeStubbornIntelligentWayMost

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

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StandFallWhySolidarityShoulder

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.

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HateI AmMeNowBloodTrue

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

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ManPainOthersBeginSenseBegins

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