“No Jewish blood runs among my blood,but I am as bitterly and hardly hatedby every anti-semiteas if I were a Jew. By thisI am a Russian.” IfsRunningBloodJew Author:Yevgeny Yevtushenko
“I do not like poems that resemble hay compressed into a geometrically perfect cube. I like it when the hay, unkempt, uncombed, with dry berries mixed in it, thrown together gaily and freely, bounces along atop some truck-and more, if there are some lovely and healthy lasses atop the hay-and better yet if the branches catch at the hay, and some of it tumbles to the road.” IfsTogetherPerfectHealthyLovelyDryBranchesThrownTruckBounceBerriesCubesHay Author:Yevgeny Yevtushenko
“Translation is like a woman. If it is beautiful, it is not faithful. If it is faithful, it is most certainly not beautiful.” IfsBeautifulFaithfulTranslations Author:Yevgeny Yevtushenko
