Author: Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Cited by
- Brian Freemantle (1)
- IN: Goodbye to an Old Friend (1973) Thriller, Suspense, British
EPIGRAPH: Cowards have small possibilities.
Fame is not won through silence
and cowards
out of caution
Are at times obliged to show courage.
Thus adders hustle to be hawks:
sensing the way the wind is blowing,
they adapt themselves to courage
just as they had adapted themselves to lies.
FROM: Yevgeny Yevtushenko, ‘Cowards Have Small Possibilities’, 1959., (1959), Poem, Russia