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.

When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie.

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,/....