Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.

More Quotes by Yevgeny Yevtushenko

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

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.

Justice is like a train that is nearly always late.