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Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko Quotes
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Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko (born July 18, 1933) is a Russian poet. He also directed several films. Reportedly, before the appearance of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Andrei Sakharov and the dissident movement in Russia, Yevtushenko, through his poetry, was the first voice to speak out against Stalinism
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- A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else can be only a footnote. Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko »
- Everything I do, I do on the principle of Russian borscht. You can throw everything into it-beets, carrots, cabbage, onions, everything you want. What's important is the result, the taste of the borscht. Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko »
- I do not like poems that resemble hay compressed into a geometrically perfect cube. I like it when the hay, unkempt, uncombed, with dry berries mixed in it, thrown together gaily and freely, bounces along atop some truck-and more, if there are some lovely and healthy lasses atop the hay-and better yet if the branches catch at the hay, and some of it tumbles to the road. Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko »
- In general, in poetry and literature, I am among those people who believe that too much is indispensable. Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko »
- In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies. Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko »
- Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers. Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko »
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