Quotes by Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko

"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, eve"

"I do not like poems that resemble hay compressed into a geometrically perfect cube. I like it when the hay, unkempt, uncombed, w"

"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."

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