Yevgeny Yevtushenko Quotes - Page 2

• Character begins to form at the first pinch of anxiety about ourselves.

  Yevgeny Yevtushenko

  Character, Anxiety, Firsts

  Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko (1989). “Early Poems”, Marion Boyars Publishers

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• Here we have some people who call themselves Christians and they forget Jesus Christ was a Jew. Something like anti-Semitism is an artificial way of avoiding responsibility. You blame the problems in your country on someone else, on some group.

  Yevgeny Yevtushenko

  Christian, Country, Jesus

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• True sport is always a duel, a duel with nature, with one's own fear, with one's own fatigue, a duel in which the body and the mind are strengthened.

  Yevgeny Yevtushenko

  Sports, Nature, Fear

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• 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

  Simple, Feet, Giving

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• 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

  Hate, Blood, Rage

  Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko (1989). “Early Poems”, Marion Boyars Publishers

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• I love sport because I love life, and sport is one of the basic joys of life.

  Yevgeny Yevtushenko

  Life, Sports, Squash

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• Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics.

  Yevgeny Yevtushenko

  Literature, Politics, Moral

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• He watched through a crack inside just pretending to be dead he wanted to fix each pallbearer in his memory . . . it seems to me a telephone was installed in the coffin to someone yet again Stalin is sending his instructions.

  Yevgeny Yevtushenko

  Memories, Justice, Cracks

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• No Jewish blood runs among my blood,but I am as bitterly and hardly hatedby every anti-semiteas if I were a Jew. By thisI am a Russian.

  Yevgeny Yevtushenko

  Running, Blood, Jew

  "Babi Yar" (1961)

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