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.
inspirational-life rainbow black
Life is a rainbow which also includes black.
sports fear mind
True sport is always a duel, a duel with nature, with one's own fear, with one's own fatigue, a duel in which the body and the mind are strengthened.
vegetables important onions
Everything I do, I do on the principle of Russian borscht. You can throw everything into it beets, carrots, cabbage, onions, everything you want. What's important is the result, the taste of the borscht.
character anxiety firsts
Character begins to form at the first pinch of anxiety about ourselves.
strong power men
There is no need to fear the strong. All one needs is to know the method of overcoming them. There is a special jujitsu for every strong man.
envy insult oneself
Envy is an insult to oneself.
beautiful faithful translations
Translation is like a woman. If it is beautiful, it is not faithful. If it is faithful, it is most certainly not beautiful.
truth lying silence
When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie.
book form
My first book was bad. It concentrated more on form than content,
hate blood rage
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.
fall wings shoulders
Why is it that right-wing bastards always stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals fall out among themselves?