Yevgeny Yevtushenko Quotes
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Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.
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I'm uncomfortable with the focus on the poet and not on the poem.
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I think poetry's always a kind of faith. It is the kind that I have.
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The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.
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Technological 'revolutions' don't really overthrow anything - they simply append a new and dynamic market to that which went before.
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Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.
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I like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes, not at all.
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I don't fear anything now.
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I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind.
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I think poetry always lives its life, and people come to it and people go away from it, 'people' in the sense of larger numbers of people. It's as though you begin to think that poetry is a resource, and that at certain times people seem to need it or want it or can find sustenance in it, and at other times they can't.
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Poetry, whatever the manifest content of the poem, is always a violation of the rationalism and morality of bourgeois society.
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Well, probably I was fed up with concrete poetry. There was a lot of bad concrete poetry and besides, it was confused with visual poetry which was completely different.
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I don't want to be known as the Hilton heiress, because I didn't do anything for that.
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Would I have traded 'Homeland' for anything else? No. Would I trade 'Billions' for anything else? No.
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Poetry is the elder sister of history, the mother of language, the ancestress of civilization.
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I found that it wasn't so oddball to like music and poetry and visual arts, they're kindred spirits.
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I was only interested in scoring goals. I wasn't interested in anything else.
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I'd do anything to help veterans.
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Everyone sort of sees his own life and times as being ephemeral. One thinks that everything good or important that happened, happened in the past. But I think that seeing scenes that you are used to, but with the heightening effects of poetry, perhaps makes you value your life and times more than you might otherwise do.
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I feel that my work is not in vain, that it does have a place in society, even though it may not be considered that it has a place in society - it doesn't matter.
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[In my writing] I know that I have made a caricature out of [others' academic] theories [but] I think that caricatures are frequently good portraits.
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Gratitude based on a faith that everything that happens or doesn’t happen in your life is for your own best interests. That we live in a purposeful universe. Life is always for you; it is never against you. It is a fact that blessings sometimes come wrapped in fear, pain, and tears. In choosing to practice unconditional gratitude you are choosing to trust the process, to honor your feelings and to place your faith in an outcome of inevitable grace.
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A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
