Nazım Hikmet

“Şimşekli rüzgâra bindik!..”

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“Dil durmadan doğuran bir anadır..." (s.57)”

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“The cloth cap on my head doesn't tell what's in it.”

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“Hayatı ıskalama lüksün yok senin!”

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“Saçları saman sarısı kirpikleri mavi”

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“moonlight the falsest the most languid the most petit-bourgeois strikes me I like it”

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“Most animals are like people- and like good people, too. - Elegy for Satan (a dog)”

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“To visit a museum is fine, to be a museum piece is terrible! - Gioconda and Si-Ya-U ”

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“Heraklit! Heraklit ! Akar suya vurmak kabil mi kilit ?”

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“Never mind the stillness - the deep sleeps to awake. - The Epic of Sheik Bedreddin , Verse 6.”

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“To live! like a tree alone and free, To live! like a forest in brotherhood/sisterhood...”

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“It's this way: being captured is beside the point the point is not to surrender. - It's This Way ”

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“I like the sound of rain more than my voice. - Windows ”

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“The beeches deep in snow, I walk the dark woods In sorrow, sorrow. Your hand, where is your hand? - In the…

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“I can't promise to be calm, dignified, and indifferent, like a rock by the sea... If my heart's going to break, let…

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“Haven't you ever thought of living unconsciously like bears, sniffing the earth, close to pears and the mossy dark, far from human…

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“and the world is so huge so lovely its shores are so endless to live as one divines a masterpiece as one…

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“My head bows before the thing you mention. But my heart doesn't speak that language. - The Epic of Sheik Bedreddin , Verse 9.”

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“The strangest of our powers Is the courage to live Knowing that we will die, Knowing nothing more true. - In the…

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“I want the right of life, of the leopard at the spring, of the seed splitting open- I want the right of…

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“You Are My Drunkenness You are my drunkenness... I did not sober up, as if I can do that; I don't want…

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“The life-loving, smart, good-hearted dead don't want forty days of mourning or say, "After me the deluge!" Leaving behind some helpful things…

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“Living is no laughing matter: you must take it seriously, so much so and to such a degree that, for example, your…

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“Thinking of you is pretty, hopeful, It is like listening to the most beautiful song From the most beautiful voice on earth...…

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“Believe in seeds, earth, and the sea, but in people above all. Love clouds, machines, and books, but people above all. Grieve…

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“the train plunges on through the pitch-black night I never knew I liked the night pitch-black sparks fly from the engine I…

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“I come and stand at every door But none can hear my silent tread I knock and yet remain unseen For I…

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“THE WEEPING WILLOW Flowing was the water showing in its mirror the willow trees. The weeping willows in the water were washing…

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“THE GREAT HUMANITY The great humanity is the deck-passenger on the ship third class on the train on foot on the causeway…

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“Living is no laughing matter: You must take it seriously. So much so and to such a degree that, for example, your…

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“MY WOMAN My woman came with me as far as Brest, she got off the train and stayed on the platform, she…

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“Let's give the world to the children just for one day like a balloon in bright and striking colours to play with…

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“I know you can't wash in the same river even once I know the river will bring new lights that you will…

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“And the most beautiful words ever spoken, I have not yet said to you.”

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“Separation isn’t time or distance it’s the bridge between us finer than silk thread sharper than swords”

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“The worst is when people - knowingly or not - carry prison inside themselves. - 9-10 P.M. Poems ”

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“ Come she said Stay she said Smile she said Die she said I came I stayed I smiled I died - Vera ”

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