Yevgeny Yevtushenko said this quote

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