All Quotes by Yevgeny Yevtushenko
“Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy.”
“A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.”
“When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie.”
“The hell with it. Who never knewthe price of happiness will not be happy.”
“So on and ontottering crazy on its smoking columns.”
“Give me a mystery – just a plain and simple one – a mystery which is diffidence and silence, a slim little, barefoot mystery: give me a mystery – just one!”
“Over Babiy YarToday I am as old as the Jewish race.”
“No Jewish blood runs among my blood,I am a Russian.”
“No people are uninteresting.and planet is dissimilar from planet.”
“A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else can be only a footnote.”
“I love sport because I love life, and sport is one of the basic joys of life”
“In general, in poetry and literature, I am among those people who believe that too much is indispensable.”
“[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.”
“Why is it that right-wing bastards always stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals fall out among themselves?”
“Time has a way of demonstratingThe most stubborn are the most intelligent.”
“Who never knew the price of happiness will not be happy.”