Yevgeny Yevtushenko Quotes

A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Envy is an insult to oneself.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

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

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Justice is like a train that is nearly always late.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Envy is an insult to oneself.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers

Yevgeny Yevtushenko