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"When you see what some women marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living."  — Helen Rowland

Yevgeny Yevtushenko Quotes

Type: Poet   |    Date of Birth: 1933-07-18   |    Year of Death:    |    Nationality: Russian
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Envy is an insult to oneself.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko

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

Great twentieth century: sputnik century: what an angst is in you, what wide perplexity! You are a good century and a century of the pit, cannibal century to the ideas you beget, century of the angry young men's target.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko

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

In any man who dies there dies with him his first snow and kiss and fight. Not people die but worlds die in them.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko

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

No, Stalin did not die. He thinks that death can be fixed. We removed him from the mausoleum. But how do we remove Stalin from Stalin's heirs?
Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Why is it that right-wing bastards always stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals fall out among themselves?
Yevgeny Yevtushenko


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