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Famous Quotes Home >> Authors Starting with Y >> Quotes By Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko |
| Quote #1: | "To believe in one's dreams is to spend all of one's life asleep." |
| Quote #2: | "A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else can be only a footnote." |
| Quote #3: | "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." |
| Quote #4: | "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." |
| Quote #5: | "Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers." |
| Quote #6: | "In any man who dies there dies with him, his first snow and kiss and fight... Not people die but worlds die in them." |
| Quote #7: | "In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies." |
| Quote #8: | "In general, in poetry and literature, I am among those people who believe that too much is indispensable." |
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