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A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else can only be a footnote.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Age: 83 †
Born: 1933
Born: July 18
Died: 2017
Died: April 1
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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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He who is conceived in a cage, yearns for the cage.
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In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.
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One day posterity will remember these strange times, when ordinary common honesty was called courage.
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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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Life is a rainbow which also includes black.
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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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But time has a way of demonstrating the most stubborn are the most intelligent.
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Those who are used to a cage will weep for a cage.
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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.
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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.
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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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Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy.
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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.
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Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.
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Character begins to form at the first pinch of anxiety about ourselves.
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When there is freedom of speech, I've found that the majority of people really have nothing to say.
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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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