Yevgeny Yevtushenko

When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie.

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

Be equal to your talent, not your age. At times let the gap between them be embarrassing.

In any man who dies there dies with him, his first snow and kiss and fight. Not people die but worlds die in them.

How can the confessor teach/ those who are lost and sick at heart,/ when he himself, among the sinners,/ is worst, and most forsaken?/ It is only a game we play/ with other people's sins./ Besides, everyone knows/ that everyone lies confessing.

All values in this world are more or less questionable, but the most important thing in life is human kindness.