Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko Quotes

Something always remains unrealized, rejecting encapsulation in words, as if there were not yet in existence words to express it all.... "I hate the idea of fixed collectivism, in which faces are erased in the name of faceless-ness. It is a miserable parody of what overcoming isolation really means. Isolation grows even deeper if it becomes collective. But every face has its inner face, of which we are sometimes wary, or else downright afraid. If we only stopped being frightened of revealing to each other these inner faces, we would see how close and akin to one another, how inseparable we really are. Only masks hate one another. Our faces cannot hate one another; but our faces are covered by masks."- from "The Face Behind the Face