Yevgeny Yevtushenko. FROM A TALK. From City Lights Pocket Poets Anthology. Edited by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. They tell me: " Man you are brave!" And I'm not-bravery never was my vice. I just didn't feel low enough to be quite as cowardly as some I saw around. But I never tried to push the world out of orbit. I just wrote. So what? I never informed, though. And I laughed at what was too much-poked fun at the Bogus- tried to say what I thought-loud enough to be heard. But a time will come to remember and burn with shame: When we shall have done with dishonesty and plain lies with those strange times when a man who was simply honest was called "brave"!