"Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers." ― Yevgeny Yevtushenko Topic(s): Poetry More From Yevgeny Yevtushenko "Time has a way of demonstrating that the most stubborn are the most intelligent." "Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy." "A poet’s autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote." More In Poetry "There’ll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory."― Philip Levine "I can find some way to make poetry out of my life’s experiences."― Shelby Lynne "Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat."― Robert Frost