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A poets autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footn

A poets autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote. – Yevgeny Yevtushenko

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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

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