I do not like poems that rese...

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.

When truth is replaced by sil...

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

But time has a way of demonst...

But time has a way of demonstrating the most stubborn are the most intelligent.

There is no need to fear the ...

There is no need to fear the strong. All one needs is to know the method of overcoming them. There is a special jujitsu for every strong man.

No Jewish blood runs among my...

No Jewish blood runs among my blood,but I am as bitterly and hardly hatedby every anti-semiteas if I were a Jew. By thisI am a Russian.

Ever since then I have known ...

Ever since then I have known that if all the values in this world are more or less questionable, the most important thing in life is kindness.

Time has a way of demonstratin...

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

Sorrow happens, hardship happe...

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

A poet's autobiography is his ...

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

Poetry is like a bird, it igno...

Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.

Literature has to serve as a m...

Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics.

There is no need to fear the s...

There is no need to fear the strong. All one needs is to know the method of overcoming them. There is a special jujitsu for every strong man.

Character begins to form at th...

Character begins to form at the first pinch of anxiety about ourselves.

When there is freedom of speec...

When there is freedom of speech, I've found that the majority of people really have nothing to say.

Be equal to your talent, not y...

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

True sport is always a duel, a...

True sport is always a duel, a duel with nature, with one's own fear, with one's own fatigue, a duel in which the body and the mind are strengthened.

Justice is like a train that i...

Justice is like a train that is nearly always late

Those who are used to a cage

Those who are used to a cage
will weep for a cage.

Evgeniy Evtushenko 03.03.2018 03:03:03 39 quotes

In any man who dies there dies...

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

Poetry is like a bird, it igno...

Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.