Quotes About Yevtushenko

A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else can only be a footnote.

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

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.

The 1960s was a period when writers in the West began to be aware of the extraordinary eloquence and popular attraction of the Russian poets such as Yevtushenko and Voznesensky - oppositional figures who could draw crowds. The Russian poets recited from memory as a matter of course.

Ever since then I have known that if all the values in this world are more or less questionable, the most important thing in life is kindness.

Yevtushenko is a high member of his country's establishment, and he lies terribly about the United States to his Russian readers.