Give me a mystery – just a plain and simple one – a mystery… - Yevgeny Yevtushenko

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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!

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

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Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko (18 July 1933 - 1 April 2017) is a controversial Russian poet and film director. During the Soviet era he spoke out publicly against Stalinism and rejected socialist realism, but was himself criticised by many Soviet dissidents.

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Native Name: Евгений Евтушенко

Alternative Names: Evgeny Evtushenko • Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko • Jevgenij Aleksandrovic Jevtusenko

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И если умирает человек,
с ним умирает первый его снег,
и первый поцелуй, и первый бой...

My dear friend Yevtushenko has, I claim, an ego that can crack crystal at a distance of twenty feet.

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.

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 – jus… - Yevgeny Yevtushenko

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