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 "Talk"

 You're a brave man they tell me.
           I'm not.
 Courage has never been my quality.
 Only I thought it disproportionate
 so to degrade myself as others did.
 No foundations trembled. My voice
 no more than laughed at pompous falsity;
 I did no more than write, never denounced,
 I left out nothing I had thought about,
 defended who deserved it, put a brand
 on the untalented, the ersatz writers
 (doing what anyhow had to be done).
 And now they press to tell me that I'm brave.
 How sharply our children will be ashamed
 taking at last their vengeance for these horrors
 remembering how in so strange a time
 common integrity could look like courage.

    -- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
    Translated by Robin Milner-Galland and Peter Levi.

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