Yevgeny Yevtushenko

(42 votes)   Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.

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(41 votes)   No, Stalin did not die. He thinks that death can be fixed. We removed him from the mausoleum. But how do we remove Stalin from Stalin's heirs?

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(40 votes)   He who is conceived in a cage yearns for the cage.

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(40 votes)   Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy.

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(35 votes)   In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.

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(25 votes)   In any man who dies there dies with him, his first snow and kiss and fight. Not people die but worlds die in them.

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(12 votes)   Give me a mystery - just a plain and simple one - a mystery which is diffidence and silence, a slim little bare-foot mystery: give me a mystery - just one!

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(12 votes)   Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin.

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(11 votes)   A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.

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(11 votes)   I love sport because I love life, and sport is one of the basic joys of life.

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(11 votes)   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.

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(11 votes)   Translation is like a woman. If it is beautiful, it is not faithful. If it is faithful, it is most certainly not beautiful.

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(11 votes)   Why is it that right-wing bastards always stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals fall out among themselves?

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(10 votes)   Justice is like a train that is nearly always late.

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(10 votes)   Time has a way of demonstrating that the most stubborn are the most intelligent.

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