A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else can be only a footnote. Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko More Quotes by Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko More Quotes From 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
