Unfortunately justice is the train that's nearly always late.

- 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

One day posterity will remember these strange times, when ordinary common honesty was called courage.

- Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Envy is an insult to oneself.

- Yevgeny Yevtushenko

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.

- Yevgeny Yevtushenko

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

- Yevgeny Yevtushenko

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

- Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Everything I do, I do on the principle of Russian borscht. You can throw everything into it beets, carrots, cabbage, onions, everything you want. Wha…

- Yevgeny Yevtushenko

To partly remain a child: that is to be really mature.

- Yevgeny Yevtushenko