Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko is a Soviet and Russian poet. He is also a novelist, essayist, dramatist, screenwriter, publisher, actor, editor and director of several films...
NationalityRussian
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth18 July 1932
CountryRussian Federation
age-and-aging equal gap
Be equal to your talent, not your age./ At times let the gap between them be embarrassing.
checking citizens connected happy history name russian special stopped war
We stopped the war in Afghanistan. We abolished censorship. We abolished the special commissions that were checking on Russian citizens going abroad. I am very happy that in history my name will be connected to this period.
book form
My first book was bad. It concentrated more on form than content,
death dies kiss kisses-and-kissing man people snow worlds
In any man who dies there dies with him, his first snow and kiss and fight. Not people die but worlds die in them.
certainly
Translation is like a woman, ... If it is beautiful, it is not faithful. If it is faithful, it is most certainly not beautiful.
sure wheels work
But what if it doesn't work ... ?/ and they jammed sticks/ In the wheels of the first locomotive/ To make sure it wouldn't work.
poem wrote
The first poem I ever wrote was terrible,
freedom cages
He who is conceived in a cage, yearns for the cage.
sports love-life joy
I love sport because I love life, and sport is one of the basic joys of life.
fall wings shoulders
Why is it that right-wing bastards always stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals fall out among themselves?
justice late train
Justice is like a train that is nearly always late.
happiness sadness sorrow
Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy.
cages used
Those who are used to a cage will weep for a cage.
hate blood rage
In my blood there is no Jewish blood. In their callous rage, all anti-Semites must hate me now as a Jew. For that reason I am a true Russian.