53 Quotes by Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy.

Time has a way of demonstrating that the most stubborn are the most intelligent.

Translation is like a woman. If it is beautiful, it is not faithful. If it is faithful, it is most certainly not beautiful.

Why is it that right-wing bastards always stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals fall out among themselves?

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.

Justice is like a train that is nearly always late.

Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin

He who is conceived in a cage, yearns for the cage.

I love sport because I love life, and sport is one of the basic joys of life.