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 experience of liberty. The poet risks himself, chances all on the poem's all with each verse he writes.
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Poetry is the elder sister of history, the mother of language, the ancestress of civilization.
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The iambic pentameter owes its pre-eminence in English poetry to its genius for variation. Good blank verse does not sound like a series of identically measured lines. It sounds like a series of subtle variations on the same theme.
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We covered 'Hey Jude.' My father panicked, misunderstanding the lyrics and thinking our lead singer was belting out 'Hey, Jew' to a roomful of Holocaust survivors.
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Any good biography has to got to lead you to the work. Many biographers have started out in love with their subjects and ended up hating them.
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The idea of what the public will think prevents the public from ever thinking at all, and acts as a spell on the exercise of private judgment.
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The queue of activists, interest groups, and ordinary people wringing their hands over what a President Donald Trump might do in office is long, and environmentalists are at the front of the line.
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A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
