Yevgeny Yevtushenko: Quotes about people

Yevgeny Yevtushenko was Russian poet, film director, teacher. Explore interesting quotes on people.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko: 34 quotes2 likes

“In general, in poetry and literature, I am among those people who believe that too much is indispensable.”

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

New York Times (2 February 1986).

“I was overjoyed when I read Yevtushenko's "Babi Yar"; the poem astounded me. It astounded thousands of people…People knew about Babi Yar before Yevtushenko's poem, but they were silent. And when they read the poem, the silence was broken. Art destroys silence.”

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Solomon Volkov (ed.), Testimony: The Memoirs of Dmitri Shostakovich (New York: Limelight, 2006) pp. 158-9.
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“No people are uninteresting.
Their fate is like the chronicle of planets.
Nothing in them is not particular,
and planet is dissimilar from planet.”

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

"People" (1961), line 1; Robin Milner-Gulland and Peter Levi (trans.) Selected Poems (London: Penguin, 2008) p. 85.