Quotes about Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics.

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

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

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

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

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

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Envy is an insult to oneself.

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

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

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Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.

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

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