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