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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In Lithuania, I am known as a poet, and they don't care about my cinema. In Europe, they don't know my poetry; in Europe, I am a filmmaker. But here, in the United States, I am only a maverick!
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I think... that when it comes to us, anything is possible.
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I'm learning from them! Everyone says that, but it's true. You learn more about yourself from them than from any other lesson.
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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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You write a screenplay and then everybody is going to want to get in on it and we have to figure that out. I've written three screenplays that are at studios and I still haven't been making them yet so there is always something that is either going to trip something up or maybe get another pass.
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A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
