Friday, August 17, 2007

Conversation With An American Writer Comments

Rating: 2.7

'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.
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Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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Susan Williams 15 February 2016

Thank you, Hollie Caskey, for the glimpse of the real man behind the poet. He did indeed live in times when plain honesty was courageous- -dictators loathe honesty

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Hollie Caskey 21 February 2008

he's such a modest man. i met him once at East Central University when he gave a poetry reading. he never threw his talent around one bit. so it seems typical that he would write such a modest poem.

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Yevgeny Yevtushenko

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