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Yevgeny Yevtushenko Quotes

Envy is an insult to oneself.

How can the confessor teach/ those who are lost and sick at heart,/ when he himself, among the sinne...

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A show of envy is an insult to oneself.

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

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

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

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

no one sleeps more beautifully than you. But i am afraid that you will waken just now, and touch me ...

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Time has a way of demonstrating that the most stubborn are the most intelligent.

They tell me, shaking their heads:"You should be kinder. You are somehow furious".I used to be kind....

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Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.

Time has a way of demonstrating . . . the most stubborn are the most intelligent.

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Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Poet

Born: 1932-07-18

Died: 2017-04-01

Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko (18 July 1933 - 1 April 2017) is a controversial Russian poet and film director. During the Soviet era he spoke out publicly against Stalinism and rejected socialist realism, but was himself criticised by many Soviet dissidents.More