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Famous Yevgeny Yevtushenko Quotes
“A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.”
Source: Stolen Apples
“Envy is an insult to oneself.”
Source: Early Poems
“But time has a way of demonstrating the most stubborn are the most intelligent.”
“A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else can only be a footnote.”
Source: Selected poems
“Be equal to your talent, not your age. At times let the gap between them be embarrassing.”
Source: Early Poems
Source: Yevtushenko: Selected Poems: Selected Poems
“Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin”
“I love sport because I love life, and sport is one of the basic joys of life.”
“Unfortunately justice is the train that's nearly always late.”
Source: Early Poems
“In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.”
“Character begins to form at the first pinch of anxiety about ourselves.”
Source: Early Poems