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come, if it PEOPLE: Yevtushenko "No people are uninteresting. "Whose fate is to survive, Their fate is like the chronicle of planets. But whOM has gone i~ also not nothing: "Nothing in them is not particular, by the rule of the game something has gone, and planet is dissimilar from planet. Not people die but worlds die in them. ••And if a man lived in obscurity "Whom we knew as faulty, the earth's creatures . making his' friends in that obscurity Of whom. ,essentially. what did we knows obscurity is not uninteresting. "Brother of a brother? Friend of friends? "To each his world is private, Lover of lover? and in that world ODe excellent minute. "We who knew our fathers .. And in that world one tragic minute. in everything, in nothing . These are private. "They perish. They cannot be brought back. "In any man who dies there dies with him The secret worlds are not regenerated. his first snow and kiss and fight. It goes with him. '. And every time again and again I make my lament against destruction. "They are left books and bridges and painted canvas and machinery.
