Top 25 Quotes by Yevgeny Yevtushenko of 34 - Page 2

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

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

Character, Anxiety, Firsts

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

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

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

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

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

Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Literature, Politics, Moral

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

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Life, Sports, Squash

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