53 Quotes by Yevgeny Yevtushenko

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

The first poem I ever wrote was terrible,

Those who are used to a cage will weep for a cage.

No Jewish blood runs among my blood,but I am as bitterly and hardly hatedby every anti-semiteas if I were a Jew. By thisI am a Russian.

No people are uninteresting. Their fate is like the chronicles of planets. Nothing in them is not particular, and planet is dissimilar from planet.

Here we have some people who call themselves Christians and they forget Jesus Christ was a Jew. Something like anti-Semitism is an artificial way of avoiding responsibility. You blame the problems in your country on someone else, on some group.

One day posterity will remember these strange times, when ordinary common honesty was called courage.

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.

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