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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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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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Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin
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When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie.
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Envy is an insult to oneself.
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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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Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics.
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There is no need to fear the strong. All one needs is to know the method of overcoming them. There is a special jujitsu for every strong man.
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One day posterity will remember these strange times, when ordinary common honesty was called courage.
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But time has a way of demonstrating the most stubborn are the most intelligent.
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He who is conceived in a cage, yearns for the cage.
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Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.
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Those who are used to a cage will weep for a cage.
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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 Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.
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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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