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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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In general, in poetry and literature, I am among those people who believe that too much is indispensable.
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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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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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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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Be equal to your talent, not your age. At times let the gap between them be embarrassing.
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Unfortunately justice is the train that's nearly always late.
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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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When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie.
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Those who are used to a cage will weep for a cage.
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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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But time has a way of demonstrating the most stubborn are the most intelligent.
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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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In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.
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He who is conceived in a cage, yearns for the cage.
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Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics.
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Envy is an insult to oneself.
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To partly remain a child: that is to be really mature.
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Ever since then I have known that if all the values in this world are more or less questionable, the most important thing in life is kindness.
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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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