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

Quote by Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Topics: Happiness Quotes, Sorrow 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.

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...

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...

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...

Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics.

Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics.

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

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

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...

Envy is an insult to oneself.

Envy is an insult to oneself.

Envy is an insult to oneself.

Envy is an insult to oneself.

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.

Justice is like a train that is nearly always late

Justice is like a train that is nearly always late

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...

Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.

Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.

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

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.

Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers

Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers

Poetry and Hums aren't things which you get, they're things which get you. And all...

Poetry and Hums aren't things which you get, they're things which get you. And all...

If we can discover the meaning in the trilling of a frog, perhaps we may...

If we can discover the meaning in the trilling of a frog, perhaps we may...

Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.

Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.