<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=549044" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Conversation with an American Writer</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">'You have courage, ' they tell me.<br>It's not true. I was never courageous.<br>I simply felt it unbecoming<br>to stoop to the cowardice of my colleagues.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I've shaken no foundations.<br>I simply mocked at pretense and inflation.<br>Wrote articles. Scribbled no denunciations.<br>And tried to speak all on my mind.<br>Yes, I defended men of talent, <br>branding the hacks, the would-be writers.<br>But this, in general, we should always do; <br>and yet they keep stressing my courage.<br>Oh, our descendants will burn with bitter shame<br>to remember, when punishing vile acts, <br>that most peculiar time, when<br>plain honesty was labeled 'courage'...</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Yevgeny+Yevtushenko">Yevgeny Yevtushenko</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=549044" data-title="Conversation with an American Writer de Yevgeny Yevtushenko" data-description="'You have courage, ' they tell me. It's not true. I was never courageous. I simply felt it unbecoming to stoop to the cowardice of my colleagues. I've shaken no foundations. I simply mocked at pretense and inflation. Wrote articles. Scribbled no ..."></div> </div> </div>

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