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A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
Envy is an insult to oneself.
Give me a mystery - just a plain and simple one - a mystery which is diffidence and silence, a slim little bare-foot mystery: give me a mystery - just one!
Great twentieth century: sputnik century: what an angst is in you, what wide perplexity! You are a good century and a century of the pit, canni... (more Yevgeny Yevtushenko quotes)
Dmitri Shostakovich wrote a symphony, his thirteenth, based on Yevtushenko's most famous poem, Babi Yar.
Has a home in Moscow but lives mostly in Oklawhoma, United States
Member of the jury at the Venice Film Festival in 1984.
Member of the jury at the Venice Film Festival in 2002.... (more Yevgeny Yevtushenko trivia)
| Yevgeny Yevtushenko: Early Poems by Yevgeny Yevtushenko and George Reavey | |
| The Collected Poems, 1952-1990: Yevgeny Yevtushenko by Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Albert C. Todd, and James Ragan | |
| A Precocious Autobiography Yevgeny Yevtushenko by Yevgeny Yevtushenko |