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Yevgeny Yevtushenko Quotes

Give me a mystery - just a plain and simple one - a mystery which is diffidence and silence, a slim little bare-foot mystery: give me a mystery - just one!
Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Biography

Author Profession: Poet
Nationality: Russian
Born: July 18, 1933

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Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Translation is like a woman. If it is beautiful, it is not faithful. If it is faithful, it is most certainly not beautiful.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko

A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Justice is like a train that is nearly always late.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko

In my blood there is no Jewish blood. In their callous rage, all anti-Semites must hate me now as a Jew. For that reason I am a true Russian.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Envy is an insult to oneself.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Time has a way of demonstrating that the most stubborn are the most intelligent.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko

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Diffidence, Give, Give Me, Just, Little, Mystery, Plain, Silence, Simple, Slim, Which

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Diffidence, Give, Just, Little, Mystery, Plain, Silence, Simple, Slim, Which