| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 66601 |
| QUOTATION: | Give me a mysteryjust a plain and simple onea mystery which is diffidence and silence, a slim little, barefoot mystery: give me a mysteryjust one! |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Yevgeny Yevtushenko (b. 1933), Russian poet. Mysteries, st. 10 (1960), trans. by Dimitri Obolensky (1965). |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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