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Yevgeny Yevtushenko [1933-0] Russian
Rank: 101
Poet


Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko is a Soviet and Russian poet. He is also a novelist, essayist, dramatist, screenwriter, publisher, actor, editor and director of several films.

Poetry, Happiness, Time



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Envy is an insult to oneself.
101
Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy. Happiness
102
Time has a way of demonstrating that the most stubborn are the most intelligent. Time
103
Translation is like a woman. If it is beautiful, it is not faithful. If it is faithful, it is most certainly not beautiful.
104
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote. Poetry
105
Why is it that right-wing bastards always stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals fall out among themselves?
106
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.
107
He who is conceived in a cage yearns for the cage.
108
Justice is like a train that is nearly always late.
109
Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin.
110
I love sport because I love life, and sport is one of the basic joys of life.
111
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!
112
Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers. Poetry
113
In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.
114
Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics.
115

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