A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else can be … - Yevgeny Yevtushenko

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A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else can be only a footnote.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

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Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko (18 July 1933 - 1 April 2017) is a controversial Russian poet and film director. During the Soviet era he spoke out publicly against Stalinism and rejected socialist realism, but was himself criticised by many Soviet dissidents.

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Native Name: Евгений Евтушенко

Alternative Names: Evgeny Evtushenko • Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko • Jevgenij Aleksandrovic Jevtusenko

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No Jewish blood runs among my blood,
but I am as bitterly and hardly hated
by every anti-semite
as if I were a Jew. By this
I am a Russian.

My dear friend Yevtushenko has, I claim, an ego that can crack crystal at a distance of twenty feet.

In any man who dies there dies with him,
his first snow and kiss and fight.

A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else can be only a footnote. - Yevgeny Yevtushenko

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