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

More Quotes by Yevgeny Yevtushenko

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

Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.

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?

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