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Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Time has a way of demonstrating that the most stubborn are the most intelligent.

Stubborn, Intelligent, Way

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy.

Happy, Be Happy, Sorrow

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

A show of envy is an insult to oneself.

self, self, knowledge

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Envy is an insult to oneself.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Time has a way of demonstrating . . . the most stubborn are the most intelligent.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

They tell me, shaking their heads:”You should be kinder. You are somehow furious”.I used to be kind. It didn’t last long.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

no one sleeps more beautifully than you. But i am afraid that you will waken just now, and touch me with an indifferent glance, lightly passing, and commit the murder of beauty.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

How can the confessor teach/ those who are lost and sick at heart,/ when he himself, among the sinners,/ is worst, and most forsaken?/ It is only a game we play/ with other people’s sins./ Besides, everyone knows/ that everyone lies confessing.

confessor, poetry, russian, sinners, sins

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

A poet’s autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.

autobiography, poetry

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie.

censorship, lies, lying, silence, truth

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

How can the confessor teach/ those who are lost and sick at heart,/ when he himself, among the sinners,/ is worst, and most forsaken?/ It is only a game we play/ with other people’s sins./ Besides, everyone knows/ that everyone lies confessing.

confessor, poetry, russian, sinners, sins

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

A poet’s autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.

autobiography, poetry