53 Quotes by Yevgeny Yevtushenko

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,/ is worst, and most forsaken?/ It is only a game we play/ with other people's sins./ Besides, everyone knows/ that everyone lies confessing.

They tell me, shaking their heads:"You should be kinder. You are somehow furious".I used to be kind. It didn’t last long.

Мне говорят, качая головой:"Ты подобрел бы. Ты какой-то злой".Я добрый был. Недолго это было.

no one sleeps more beautifully than you. But i am afraid that you will waken just now, and touch me with an indifferent glance, lightly passing, and commit the murder of beauty.

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

But the system for all its cruelty and deceitfulness, turned out to be stupid. It had taught its future gravedigger how to wield a shovel.

Be equal to your talent, not your age. At times let the gap between them be embarrassing.

Quand la vérité est remplacée par le silence, le silence est un mensonge