Yevgeny Yevtushenko

A show of envy is an insult to oneself.

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

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

Life is a rainbow which also includes black.

There is no Jewish blood in my veins, But I am hated with a scabby hatred By all the anti-Semites, like a Jew. And therefore I am a true Russian.