Yevgeny Yevtushenko Quotes
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A show of envy is an insult to oneself.
Life is a rainbow which also includes black.
Justice is a train that always comes too late.
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else can be only a footnote.
Time has a way of demonstrating that the most stubborn are the most intelligent.
If the poet tries to split himself in two between the man and the poet, he will invariably commit suicide as an artist.
Why is it that right-wing bastards always stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals fall out among themselves?
My ideas were completely immature. I was simply developing my poetic muscles. I swung alliterations, rhymes, and metaphors like Indian clubs.
In any man who dies there dies with him his first snow and kiss and fight. It goes with him. They are left books and bridges and painted canvas and machinery. Whose fate is to survive. But what has gone is also not nothing: by the rule of the game something has gone. Not people die but worlds die in them.
