Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko is a Soviet and Russian poet. He is also a novelist, essayist, dramatist, screenwriter, publisher, actor, editor and director of several films...
NationalityRussian
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth18 July 1932
CountryRussian Federation
bird poetry new-frontiers
Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.
time intelligent stubborn
Time has a way of demonstrating that the most stubborn are the most intelligent.
death kissing fighting
In any man who dies there dies with him his first snow and kiss and fight... Not people die but worlds die in them.
kindness things-in-life important
All values in this world are more or less questionable, but the most important thing in life is human kindness.
memories cracks coffins
He watched through a crack inside just pretending to be dead he wanted to fix each pallbearer in his memory . . . it seems to me a telephone was installed in the coffin to someone yet again Stalin is sending his instructions.
cages used
Those who are used to a cage will weep for a cage.
fate people planets
No people are uninteresting. Their fate is like the chronicles of planets. Nothing in them is not particular, and planet is dissimilar from planet.
christian country jesus
Here we have some people who call themselves Christians and they forget Jesus Christ was a Jew. Something like anti-Semitism is an artificial way of avoiding responsibility. You blame the problems in your country on someone else, on some group.
honesty one-day strange-times
One day posterity will remember these strange times, when ordinary common honesty was called courage.
running blood jew
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.
happiness sadness sorrow
Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy.
literature moral
Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics.
justice late train
Justice is like a train that is nearly always late.
sports love-life joy
I love sport because I love life, and sport is one of the basic joys of life.