He who is conceived in a cage yearns for the cage.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Translation is like a woman. If it is beautiful, it is not faithful. If it is faithful, it is most certainly not beautiful.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Justice is like a train that is nearly always late.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko

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

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

Envy is an insult to oneself.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko

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