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Writing poems is perhaps the loveliest deception
Later they'll make a picture or something, then go and drink wine

— Ataol Behramoğlu I've Learned Some Things (2008)

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Death, one experiences alone
Love is a two-person thing

I've Learned Some Things (2008)

Is the truth of tablecloths to be spread? How awful always to take refuge in known words
A person should let himself go.

I've Learned Some Things (2008)

Creativity is a hidden gem. Education is needed to uncover it.

The Poet's Poetic Responsibility (2012)

The poet should be responsible to the poem.

The Poet's Poetic Responsibility (2012)

A person can gaze at the sky for hours
Can gaze for hours at a bird, a child, the sea
To live on the earth is to become part of it
To strike down roots that won't pull free

I've Learned Some Things (2008)

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The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.

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Three sleepless nights I passed in sounding on,
Through words and things, a dim and perilous way.

William Wordsworth Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)

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