Yevgeny Yevtushenko Quotes

When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie.

~ Yevgeny Yevtushenko

A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.

~ Yevgeny Yevtushenko

How can the confessor teach/ those who are lost and sick at heart,/ when he himself, among the sinners,/ is worst, and most forsaken?/ It is only a game we play/ with other people's sins./ Besides, everyone knows/ that everyone lies confessing.

~ 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

Be equal to your talent, not your age. At times let the gap between them be embarrassing.

~ Yevgeny Yevtushenko

A show of envy is an insult to oneself.

~ Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy.

~ Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Time has a way of demonstrating that the most stubborn are the most intelligent.

~ Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.

~ Yevgeny Yevtushenko