"A poet’s autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote." ― Yevgeny Yevtushenko Topic(s): Poetry More From Yevgeny Yevtushenko "Time has a way of demonstrating that the most stubborn are the most intelligent." "Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers." "Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy." More In Poetry "I wrote The Green Eye of the Little Yellow God in five hours, but I had it all planned out. It isn’t poetry and it does not pretend to be, but it does what it sets out to do."― J. Milton Hayes "I never thought I’d be doing poetry books. I never really studied poetry. But the first one I did was after my mother died, and I realized that people sort of think and talk about her style and fashion, but in fact, what made her the person she was was really her love of reading and ideas."― Caroline Kennedy "Rap is rhythm and poetry. Hip-hop is storytelling and poetry as well."― Ajay Naidu