Take sides! Always take sides! You will sometimes be wrong - but the man who refuses to take sides must always be wrong.
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Robert A. Heinlein
You always admire what you really don't understand.
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Eleanor Roosevelt
What you can't get is just what suits you.
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French Proverb
The dream is real my friends. The failure to realize it is the only reality.
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Toni Cade Bambara
The true exercise of freedom is-can-nily and wisely and with grace-to move inside what space confines-and not seek to know what lies beyond and cannot be touched or tasted.
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A. S. Byatt
More Quotes By Yevgeny Yevtushenko
When truth is replaced by silence, the silence is a lie.
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
How can the confessor teach/ those who are lost and sick at heart, / when he himself, among the sinners, / is worst, and most forsaken?/ It is only a game we play/ with other people's sins./ Besides, everyone knows/ that everyone lies confessing.
They tell me, shaking their heads:" You should be kinder. You are somehow furious". I used to be kind. It didn’t last long.
No one sleeps more beautifully than you. But i am afraid that you will waken just now, and touch me with an indifferent glance, lightly passing, and commit the murder of beauty.