Yevgeny Yevtushenko Quotes
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Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace or pleasure in the way that I throw myself into prose.
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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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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
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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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Kids: If a bear is wearing a ranger hat, it's because he ate the ranger!
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Labor rids us of three great evils; tediousness, vice, and poverty.
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For a North Korean watcher, seeing 'The Interview' is like seeing an earnest endeavor reflected back through a freak-show mirror.
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For years now I have been talking about personal responsibility and accountability, both in our private lives and in the halls of government. Those are important principles here in Idaho, and they will form the basis of this administration.
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A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
