Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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"Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko" is a USSR/Soviet and Russian poet. He is also a novelist, essayist, dramatist, screenwriter, actor, and editor, and a director of several films.

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Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.

Envy is an insult to oneself.

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

Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy.

Justice is like a train that is nearly always late.

No, Stalin did not die. He thinks that death can be fixed. We removed him from the mausoleum. But how do we remove Stalin from Stalin's heirs?

Why is it that right-wing bastards always stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals fall out among themselves?

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

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