Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers

Quote by Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Topics: Poetry Quotes

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

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

Why is it that right-wing bastards always stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals...

Why is it that right-wing bastards always stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals...

Envy is an insult to oneself.

Envy is an insult to oneself.

Justice is like a train that is nearly always late

Justice is like a train that is nearly always late

Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.

Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.

Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin.

Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin.

Translation is like a woman. If it is beautiful, it is not faithful. If it...

Translation is like a woman. If it is beautiful, it is not faithful. If it...

I love sport because I love life, and sport is one of the basic joys...

I love sport because I love life, and sport is one of the basic joys...

Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics.

Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics.

In my blood there is no Jewish blood. In their callous rage, all anti-Semites must...

In my blood there is no Jewish blood. In their callous rage, all anti-Semites must...

He who is conceived in a cage yearns for the cage.

He who is conceived in a cage yearns for the cage.

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

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

In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.

In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.

Envy is an insult to oneself.

Envy is an insult to oneself.

Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness,...

Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness,...

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

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

Give me a mystery - just a plain and simple one - a mystery which...

Give me a mystery - just a plain and simple one - a mystery which...