Consolatio: Yevtushenko: People die along with their first kiss

Yevtushenko: People die along with their first kiss

...When people die, they do not die alone.

They die along with their first kiss,

first combat

They take away their first day in the snow...

—Yevgeny Yevtushenko (1933–2017), from the poem “People”

Here are some other versions of this poem.

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