Quotes by : Yevgeny Yevtushenko

They tell me, shaking their heads:"You should be kinder. You are somehow furious".I used to be kind.....

Time has a way of demonstrating that the most stubborn are the most intelligent.

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

Time has a way of demonstrating . . . the most stubborn are the most intelligent.

A show of envy is an insult to oneself.

Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.

no one sleeps more beautifully than you. But i am afraid that you will waken just now, and touch me with....

Be equal to your talent, not your age. At times let the gap between them be embarrassing.

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

How can the confessor teach/ those who are lost and sick at heart,/ when he himself, among the sinners,/....