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Poems of Nazım Hikmet

Nâzım Hikmet

Top 10 Best Quotes

“The most beautiful sea hasn't been crossed yet. The most beautiful child hasn't grown up yet. Our most beautiful days we haven't seen yet. And the most beautiful words I wanted to tell you I haven't said yet...”

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

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

“Haven't you ever thought of living unconsciously like bears, sniffing the earth, close to pears and the mossy dark, far from human voices and fire?- On İbrahim Balaban's Painting "Spring"”

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

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

“Come she saidStay she saidSmile she saidDie she said I came I stayed I smiled I died- Vera”

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

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

“I can't promise to be calm, dignified, and indifferent, like a rock by the sea... If my heart's going to break, let it break from anger, grief, or joy. - To Lydia Ivanna”

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Book Keywords:

rain, emotion, death, bears, separation, loss, exhibits, closeness, prison, life, mortality, museums, emotionality, mental-chains, sorrow, grief, love, mourning, courage, back-to-nature, fossilization, simple-life, simplicity, solitude

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