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"Give me a mystery – just a plain and simple one – a mystery which is diffidence and silence, a slim little, barefoot mystery: give me a mystery – just one!"
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Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko was a Soviet and Russian poet, novelist, essayist, dramatist, screenwriter, publisher, actor, editor, university professor, and director of several films.
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"He has a clear style and has had much courage – as in his poem "Babi Yar", a memorial to the Jews murdered by the Nazis. But he is no more than a talented poetaster – which is quite obvious to all but Western journalists – and it would be foolish to consider him as more than a skilful publicist."
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"I was overjoyed when I read Yevtushenkos "Babi Yar"; the poem astounded me. It astounded thousands of people…People knew about Babi Yar before Yevtushenkos poem, but they were silent. And when they read the poem, the silence was broken. Art destroys silence."
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"The hell with it. Who never knew the price of happiness will not be happy."
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"So on and on we walked without thinking of rest passing craters, passing fire, under the rocking sky of 41 tottering crazy on its smoking columns."
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"И если умирает человек, с ним умирает первый его снег, и первый поцелуй, и первый бой..."
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