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Nazim Hikmet Quotes

Nazim Hikmet quotes

Turkish Poet November 20, 1901 – June 3, 1963

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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... But hope is not enough for me any more, I don't want to listen to songs any more, I want to sing. Nazim Hikmet
Nazim Hikmet quote: "and the most beautiful words ever spoken, I have not yet said..."
and the most beautiful words ever spoken, I have not yet said to you. Nazim Hikmet
I know you can't wash in the same river even once. I know the river will bring new lights that you will not see. I know we live slightly longer than a horse and not nearly as long as a crow. I know this has troubled people before and will trouble those after me. I know all this has been said a thousand times before and will be said after me. I didn't know I like the sky cloudy or clearthe blue vault that Andrei watched on his back on the battlefield at Borodino... Nazim Hikmet
Nazim Hikmet quote: "And don't forget, a prisoner's wife must always think good..."
And don't forget, a prisoner's wife must always think good thoughts. Nazim Hikmet
LET'S GIVE THE WORLD TO THE CHILDRENLet's give the world to the children just for one daylike a balloon in bright and striking colours to play withlet them play singing among the starslet's give the world to the childrenlike a huge apple like a warm loaf of breadat least for one day let them have enoughlet's give the world to the childrenat least for one day let the world learn friendshipchildren will get the world from our handsthey'll plant immortal trees Nazim Hikmet
You Are My DrunkennessYou are my drunkenness... I did not sober up, as if I can do that; I don't want to anyway. I have a headache, my knees are full of scars I am in mud all around I struggle to walk towards your hesitant light. Nazim Hikmet
Living is no laughing matter: you must live with great seriousness like a squirrel for example - I mean without looking for something beyond and above living, I mean living must be your whole occupation. Nazim Hikmet
Nazim Hikmet quote: "However and wherever we are, we must live as if we will never..."
However and wherever we are, we must live as if we will never die. Nazim Hikmet
Nazim Hikmet quote: "being captured is beside the pointthe point is not to surrender"
being captured is beside the pointthe point is not to surrender Nazim Hikmet
Nazim Hikmet quote: "Salar saman sars kirpikleri mavi"
Salar saman sars kirpikleri mavi Nazim Hikmet
Nazim Hikmet quote: "Hayat skalama lksn yok senin!"
Hayat skalama lksn yok senin! Nazim Hikmet

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