Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers. – Yevgeny Yevtushenko
In any man who dies there dies with him, his first snow and kiss and fight. Not people die but worlds die in them. – Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers. – Yevgeny Yevtushenko
In any man who dies there dies with him, his first snow and kiss and fight. Not people die but worlds die in them. – Yevgeny Yevtushenko
A poets autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote. – Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Time has a way of demonstrating that the most stubborn are the most intelligent. – Yevgeny Yevtushenko
While also, importantly, not wanting to dumb it down or pretend the days of difficult poetry are over, because we live in a pluralist culture and theres room for difficult poetry alongside rap and everything else. And poetry wont be for everyone, but everyone should have the choice. – Andrew Motion