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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)

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

People (1961)

Why is it that right-wing bastards always stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals fall out among themselves?

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

The hell with it. Who never knew
the price of happiness will not be happy.

Lies (1952)

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

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“Destiny,” said John. “The ghastliest word a man can speak.”

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