53 Quotes by Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Envy is an insult to oneself.

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!

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

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.

A poet’s autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.

Everything I do, I do on the principle of Russian borscht. You can throw everything into it beets, carrots, cabbage, onions, everything you want. What’s important is the result, the taste of the borscht.

When there is freedom of speech, I’ve found that the majority of people really have nothing to say.

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