Early Poems
A source page for quotes linked to Yevgeny Yevtushenko.
“A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.”
“Envy is an insult to oneself.”
“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.”
“Be equal to your talent, not your age. At times let the gap between them be embarrassing.”
“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.”
“In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.”
“Character begins to form at the first pinch of anxiety about ourselves.”