Evgenij Aleksandrovič Evtušenko frasi celebri
“Essenza del popolo è la bontà.”
da Di dove siete voi? in Poesie, trad. Alfeo Bertin. Garzanti, Milano, 1970
da Sono Gagarin, il figlio della terra; citato in Pier Paolo Pasolini, Pagine corsare http://www.pasolini.net/poesia_evtuschenko.htm
Evgenij Aleksandrovič Evtušenko: Frasi in inglese
“A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else can be only a footnote.”
Andrew R. MacAndrew (trans.) A Precocious Autobiography (1963; repr. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1965) p. 7.
“In any man who dies there dies with him,
his first snow and kiss and fight.”
И если умирает человек,
с ним умирает первый его снег,
и первый поцелуй, и первый бой...
"People" (1961), line 12; Robin Milner-Gulland and Peter Levi (trans.) Selected Poems (London: Penguin, 2008) p. 85.
Solomon Volkov (ed.), Testimony: The Memoirs of Dmitri Shostakovich (New York: Limelight, 2006) pp. 158-9.
Criticism
New York Times (2 February 1986).
“The hell with it. Who never knew
the price of happiness will not be happy.”
"Lies" (1952), line 11; Robin Milner-Gulland and Peter Levi (trans.) Selected Poems (London: Penguin, 2008) p. 52.
"The Companion" (1954), line 45; Robin Milner-Gulland and Peter Levi (trans.) Selected Poems (London: Penguin, 2008) p. 58.
“I love sport because I love life, and sport is one of the basic joys of life”
Sports Illustrated (19 December 1966)
"People" (1961), line 1; Robin Milner-Gulland and Peter Levi (trans.) Selected Poems (London: Penguin, 2008) p. 85.
Martin Seymour-Smith, Guide to Modern World Literature (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1975) vol. 4, pp. 240-1.
Criticism
"Babiy Yar" (1961), line 58; Robin Milner-Gulland and Peter Levi (trans.) Selected Poems (London: Penguin, 2008) pp. 83-4.
“Time has a way of demonstrating
The most stubborn are the most intelligent.”
A Career http://books.google.com/books?id=qFSwAAAAIAAJ&q=%22Time+has+a+way+of+demonstrating+The+most+stubborn+are+the+most+intelligent%22&pg=PA63#v=onepage
John Cheever, in George Plimpton (ed.) Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, Fifth Series (New York: Penguin, 1981) p. 121.
Criticism
"Mysteries" (1960), st. 10; Dimitri Obolensky (ed.) The Heritage of Russian Verse (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1976) p. 452.
"Babiy Yar" (1961), line 1; Robin Milner-Gulland and Peter Levi (trans.) Selected Poems (London: Penguin, 2008) p. 82.
