Yevgeny Yevtushenko

When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie. ↗

— Yevgeny Yevtushenko

#lies #lying #silence #truth #lie

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

— Yevgeny Yevtushenko

#anything #autobiography #else #footnote #his

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

— Yevgeny Yevtushenko

#talents #age

no one sleeps more beautifully than you. But i am afraid that you will waken just now, and touch me with an indifferent glance, lightly passing, and commit the murder of beauty. ↗

— Yevgeny Yevtushenko

#beauty

Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers. ↗

— Yevgeny Yevtushenko

#frontiers #ignores #like #poetry

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! ↗

— Yevgeny Yevtushenko

#give #give me #just #just one #little

Justice is like a train that is nearly always late. ↗

— Yevgeny Yevtushenko

#justice #late #like #nearly #train

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

— Yevgeny Yevtushenko

#conceived #who #yearns

Envy is an insult to oneself. ↗

— Yevgeny Yevtushenko

#insult #oneself

In my blood there is no Jewish blood. In their callous rage, all anti-Semites must hate me now as a Jew. For that reason I am a true Russian. ↗

— Yevgeny Yevtushenko

#blood #callous #hate #i #i am