Yevgeny Yevtushenko
“Time has a way of demonstrating: the most stubborn are the most intelligent.”
“I do not like poems that resemble hay compressed into a geometrically perfect cube.”
“In poetry and literature, I am among those who believe that too much is indispensable.”
“I love sport because I love life, and sport is one of the basic joys of life.”
“Why is it that right-wing bastards stand shoulder to shoulder, while liberals fall out among themselves?”
“Give me a mystery—just a plain and simple one.”
“The hell with it. Who never knew the price of happiness will not be happy.”
“In any man who dies there dies with him his first snow and kiss and fight.”
“No people are uninteresting. Their fate is like the chronicle of planets.”
“Over Babiy Yar there are no memorials.”
“A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else can be only a footnote.”