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Nâzım Hikmet Quotes

1901–1963 Russia

Nâzım Hikmet (20 November 1901 – 3 June 1963) was a Turkish poet and dramatist, who is widely regarded as the best-known Turkish poet in the West; his works have been translated into several languages.

Russia
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Novelists
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Also known as: Hikmet, Nazim, Nazim Hikmet, Nazım Hikmet, Nazım Hikmet Ran

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At eighteen the heart shoots like a pebble from a slingshot
and the head doesn't sit on the shoulder.

At eighteen you don't think about memories,
you tell them.

My country or the stars
Or my youth, what's farthest?

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

It's this way:
being captured is beside the point,
the point is not to surrender.

The world's not run by governments or money
but people rule
a hundred years from now
maybe
but it will be for sure.

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

At eighteen you sleep without memories.

Looking at this insolent earth,
you hear the first battle cry of our species-
trap it under a rock
and together, screaming, attack
and destroy it, as if killing a mammoth.

All I wrote about us is lies
All I wrote about us is the truth

I've never regretted I was born too soon.
I'm proud to be
a child of the twentieth century.
I'm satisfied
to join its ranks
on our side
and fight for a new world...

I'm twenty-seven,
she's seventeen.
"Blind Cupid,
lame Cupid,
both blind and lame Cupid
said, Love this girl,"

You're my bondage and my freedom,
my flesh burning like a naked summer night,
you're my country.
Hazel eyes marbled green,
you're awesome, beautiful, and brave,
you're my desire always just out of reach.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Nâzım Hikmet (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.