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Translation is like a woman. If it is beautiful, it is not faithful. If it is faithful, it is most certainly not beautiful.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Age: 83 †
Born: 1933
Born: July 18
Died: 2017
Died: April 1
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Evgeny Evtushenko
Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko
Jevgenij Aleksandrovic Jevtusenko
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No people are uninteresting. Their fate is like the chronicles of planets. Nothing in them is not particular, and planet is dissimilar from planet.
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A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else can only be a footnote.
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Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy.
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One day posterity will remember these strange times, when ordinary common honesty was called courage.
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In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.
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Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics.
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Why is it that right-wing bastards always stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals fall out among themselves?
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Give me a mystery - just a plain and simple one - a mystery which is diffidence and silence, a slim little bare-foot mystery: give me a mystery - just one!
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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.
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In any man who dies there dies with him his first snow and kiss and fight... Not people die but worlds die in them.
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I love sport because I love life, and sport is one of the basic joys of life.
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Be equal to your talent, not your age. At times let the gap between them be embarrassing.
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He who is conceived in a cage, yearns for the cage.
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To partly remain a child: that is to be really mature.
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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.
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Unfortunately justice is the train that's nearly always late.
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Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.
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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.
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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.
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Those who are used to a cage will weep for a cage.
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