53 Quotes by Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Give me a mystery - just a plain and simple one - a mystery which is diffidence and silence, a slim little bare-foot mystery: give me a mystery - just one!

Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.

In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.

Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics.

We stopped the war in Afghanistan. We abolished censorship. We abolished the special commissions that were checking on Russian citizens going abroad. I am very happy that in history my name will be connected to this period.

My first book was bad. It concentrated more on form than content,

But what if it doesn't work ... ?/ and they jammed sticks/ In the wheels of the first locomotive/ To make sure it wouldn't work.

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

In any man who dies there dies with him, his first snow and kiss and fight. Not people die but worlds die in them.