He who is conceived in a cage, yearns for the cage. Yevgeny Yevtushenko More Quotes by Yevgeny Yevtushenko More Quotes From Yevgeny Yevtushenko In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies. Yevgeny Yevtushenko russiacouragebelieve But time has a way of demonstrating the most stubborn are the most intelligent. Yevgeny Yevtushenko stubbornintelligenttime Be equal to your talent, not your age. At times let the gap between them be embarrassing. Yevgeny Yevtushenko gapstalentage Here we have some people who call themselves Christians and they forget Jesus Christ was a Jew. Something like anti-Semitism is an artificial way of avoiding responsibility. You blame the problems in your country on someone else, on some group. Yevgeny Yevtushenko christiancountryjesus I love sport because I love life, and sport is one of the basic joys of life. Yevgeny Yevtushenko squashsportslife No people are uninteresting. Their fate is like the chronicles of planets. Nothing in them is not particular, and planet is dissimilar from planet. Yevgeny Yevtushenko planetsfatepeople In general, in poetry and literature, I am among those people who believe that too much is indispensable. Yevgeny Yevtushenko literaturebelievepeople He watched through a crack inside just pretending to be dead he wanted to fix each pallbearer in his memory . . . it seems to me a telephone was installed in the coffin to someone yet again Stalin is sending his instructions. Yevgeny Yevtushenko cracksjusticememories Why is it that right-wing bastards always stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals fall out among themselves? Yevgeny Yevtushenko shoulderswingsfall 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 ragehateblood Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics. Yevgeny Yevtushenko moralpoliticsliterature Those who are used to a cage will weep for a cage. Yevgeny Yevtushenko vegancagesvegetarian No Jewish blood runs among my blood,but I am as bitterly and hardly hatedby every anti-semiteas if I were a Jew. By thisI am a Russian. Yevgeny Yevtushenko jewrunningblood Time has a way of demonstrating that the most stubborn are the most intelligent. Yevgeny Yevtushenko stubbornintelligenttimeway A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote. Yevgeny Yevtushenko anythingjustpoetpoetry Justice is like a train that is nearly always late. Yevgeny Yevtushenko alwayslatetrainjustice
