Time has a way of demonstrating that the most stubborn are the most intelligent. – Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Translation is like a woman. If it is beautiful, it is not faithful. If it is faithful, it is most certainly not beautiful. – Yevgeny Yevtushenko
In my blood there is no Jewish blood. In their callous rage, all anti-Semites must hate me now as a Jew. For that reason I am a true Russian. – Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Give me a mystery – just a plain and simple one – a mystery which is diffidence and silence, a slim little bare-foot mystery: give me a mystery – just one! – Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Why is it that right-wing bastards always stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals fall out among themselves? – Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy. – Yevgeny Yevtushenko
