"That time, so strange, when simple honesty looked like courage."
"I sing and drink, giving no thought to death; with arms outspread I fall upon the grass, and if, in this wide world I come to die, then it's certain to be from sheer joy that I live."
The world could use more words from Yevgeny Yevtushenko these days.
It was an honor to have met him, one of few people who owned the description "larger than life" without question. His death on April 1st, in keeping with a personality both playful and deadly serious, sent me down memory lane with a number of classmates from the 1990's.
"I sing and drink, giving no thought to death; with arms outspread I fall upon the grass, and if, in this wide world I come to die, then it's certain to be from sheer joy that I live."
The world could use more words from Yevgeny Yevtushenko these days.
It was an honor to have met him, one of few people who owned the description "larger than life" without question. His death on April 1st, in keeping with a personality both playful and deadly serious, sent me down memory lane with a number of classmates from the 1990's.
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