“Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.”
Yevgeny Yevtushenko“Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.”
Yevgeny Yevtushenko“Time has a way of demonstrating that the most stubborn are the most intelligent.”
Yevgeny Yevtushenko“Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy.”
Yevgeny Yevtushenko“A show of envy is an insult to oneself.”
Yevgeny Yevtushenko“Envy is an insult to oneself.”
Yevgeny Yevtushenko“Time has a way of demonstrating . . . the most stubborn are the most intelligent.”
Yevgeny Yevtushenko“Be equal to your talent, not your age. At times let the gap between them be embarrassing.”
Yevgeny Yevtushenko“no one sleeps more beautifully than you. But i am afraid that you will waken just now, and touch me with an indifferent glance, lightly passing, and commit the murder of beauty.”
Yevgeny Yevtushenko“They tell me, shaking their heads:"You should be kinder. You are somehow furious".I used to be kind. It didn’t last long.”
Yevgeny Yevtushenko“A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.”
Yevgeny Yevtushenko