Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers. – Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Time has a way of demonstrating that the most stubborn are the most intelligent. – Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers. – Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Time has a way of demonstrating that the most stubborn are the most intelligent. – Yevgeny Yevtushenko
A poets autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote. – Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy. – Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Short fiction is the medium I love the most, because it requires that I bring everything Ive learned about poetry – the concision, the ability to say something as vividly as possible – but also the ability to create a narrative that, though lacking a novels length, satisfies the reader. – Ron Rash