I love sport because I love life, and sport is one of the basic joys of life.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Love, Because, I Love, Joys
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
Beautiful, Most, Certainly, Translation
Why is it that right-wing bastards always stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals fall out among themselves?
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Why, Always, While, Shoulder
In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Enemies, Russia, Worst, Tyrants
Justice is like a train that is nearly always late.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Late, Always, Like, Train
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
Reason, Jewish, Russian, Callous
Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Bird, Like, Frontiers, Ignores
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
Give, Slim, Which, Diffidence
Envy is an insult to oneself.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Envy, Oneself, Insult
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Poetry, His, Else, Autobiography
Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Happiness, Hardship, Never, Happens
He who is conceived in a cage yearns for the cage.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
He, Who, Conceived, Cage
Time has a way of demonstrating that the most stubborn are the most intelligent.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Time, Stubborn, Most, Intelligent
Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Pain, Only, Does, Begins
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