Yevgeny Yevtushenko’s full name was Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko was a Soviet and Russian poet. He was also a novelist, essayist, dramatist, screenwriter, publisher, actor, editor, and director of several films. These inspirational Yevgeny Yevtushenko Quotes will enrich your life if you implement them in real.
Best Yevgeny Yevtushenko Quotes
- “When truth is replaced by silence, the silence is a lie.” – Yevgeny Yevtushenko
- “One day posterity will remember these strange times, when ordinary common honesty was called courage.” – Yevgeny Yevtushenko
- “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.” – Yevgeny Yevtushenko
- “Life is a rainbow which also includes black.” – Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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“To partly remain a child: that is to be really mature.” – Yevgeny Yevtushenko
- “When there is freedom of speech, I’ve found that the majority of people really have nothing to say.” – Yevgeny Yevtushenko
- “Unfortunately, justice is the train that’s nearly always late.” – Yevgeny Yevtushenko
- “Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy.” – Yevgeny Yevtushenko
- “Translation is like a woman. If it is beautiful, it is not faithful. If it is faithful, it is most certainly not beautiful.” – Yevgeny Yevtushenko
- “Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.” – Yevgeny Yevtushenko
- “Envy is an insult to oneself.” – Yevgeny Yevtushenko
- “In any man who dies there dies with him his first snow and kiss and fight… Not people die but worlds die in them.” – Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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“He who is conceived in a cage yearns for the cage.” – 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
- “A poet’s autobiography is his poetry. Anything else can only be a footnote.” – Yevgeny Yevtushenko
- “Be equal to your talent, not your age. At times let the gap between them be embarrassing.” – Yevgeny Yevtushenko
- “Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin” – Yevgeny Yevtushenko
- “In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.” – Yevgeny Yevtushenko
- “Why is it that right-wing bastards always stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals fall out among themselves?” – Yevgeny Yevtushenko
- “True sport is always a duel, a duel with nature, with one’s own fear, with one’s own fatigue, a duel in which the body and the mind are strengthened.” – Yevgeny Yevtushenko
- “But time has a way of demonstrating the most stubborn are the most intelligent.” – Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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“Character begins to form at the first pinch of anxiety about ourselves.” – Yevgeny Yevtushenko
- “No people are uninteresting. Their fate is like the chronicles of planets. Nothing in them is not particular, and planet is dissimilar from planet.” – Yevgeny Yevtushenko
- “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!” – Yevgeny Yevtushenko
- “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.” – Yevgeny Yevtushenko
- “In general, in poetry and literature, I am among those people who believe that too much is indispensable.” – Yevgeny Yevtushenko
- “I love sport because I love life, and sport is one of the basic joys of life.” – Yevgeny Yevtushenko
- “Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics.” – Yevgeny Yevtushenko
- “Those who are used to a cage will weep for a cage.” – Yevgeny Yevtushenko
- “No Jewish blood runs among my blood, but I am as bitterly and hardly hated by every anti-semiteas if I were a Jew. By thisI am a Russian.” – Yevgeny Yevtushenko
