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
Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Why is it that right-wing bastards always stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals fall out among themselves?
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
He who is conceived in a cage yearns for the cage.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Time has a way of demonstrating that the most stubborn are the most intelligent.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics.