Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko Famous Quotes
To believe in one's dreams is to spend all of one's life asleep.
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else can be only a footnote.
"Everything I do, I do on the principle of Russian borscht. You can throw everything into it-beets, carrots, cabbage, onions, everything you want. What's important is the result, the taste of the borscht."
"I do not like poems that resemble hay compressed into a geometrically perfect cube. I like it when the hay, unkempt, uncombed, with dry berries mixed in it, thrown together gaily and freely, bounces along atop some truck-and more, if there are some lovely and healthy lasses atop the hay-and better yet if the branches catch at the hay, and some of it tumbles to the road."
"Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers."
"In any man who dies there dies with him, his first snow and kiss and fight... Not people die but worlds die in them."
In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.
"In general, in poetry and literature, I am among those people who believe that too much is indispensable."
Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko Quotations
"A poet's hope to be, like some valley cheese, local, but prized elsewhere."
W H Auden
"We fear death, yet we long for slumber and beautiful dreams."
Kahlil Gibran
"No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble the less favor, the less envy. Even in those cases which put us out of wits, it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss that troubles us."
Seneca
Necessity is the mother of taking chances.
Mark Twain
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
Herbert Spencer
Washington D.C. is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Birds sing after a storm why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them
Rose Kennedy
"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."
Epicurus
Cabbage A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.
Ambrose Bierce
"The conformation of his mind was such that whatever was little seemed to him great, and whatever was great seemed to him little."
Thomas Babington