Truth Quote by Yevgeny Yevtushenko — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.”

“Who never knew the price of happiness will not be happy.”

“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.”

“Schmerz ist Wahrheit; alles andere wird angezweifelt.”

“The trouble with denial is that when the truth comes, you aren't ready.”

“All along — not only since she left, but for a decade before — I had been imagining her without listening, without knowing that she made as a poor a window as I did. And so I could not imagine her as a person who could feel fear, who could feel isolated in a roomful of people, who could be shy about her record collection because it was too personal to share. Someone who might have read travel books to escape having to live in the town that so many people escape to. Someone who — because no one thought she was a person — had no one to really talk to.”

“Everything is created twice, first in the mind and then in reality.”

“Life without any wonder left in it is flat and stale.”

“I don't want to excuse myself; but I would like to explain—I would like somebody to understand—somebody—one person at least! You! Why not you?”