Naz?m Hikmet Professions : Poet Born : January 15, 1902 Died : June 3, 1963 Browse All Authors Top 20 quotes by Naz?m Hikmet The most beautiful sea hasn't been crossed yet. Naz?m Hikmet sea beautiful children However and wherever we are, we must live as if we will never die. Naz?m Hikmet dies ifs Separation isnt time or distance Naz?m Hikmet separation distance bridges When the light of the star which flows into my eyes as a drop of gold first pierced the darkness in space, there was not a single eye on earth looking at the sky. Naz?m Hikmet stars light eye That's how it goes, my friend. The problem is not falling a captive, it's how to avoid surrender. Naz?m Hikmet defeat problem fall We'll dive into the earth together. And if one day a wild flower finds water and springs up from that piece of earth, its stem will have two blooms for sure: one will be you, the other me. Naz?m Hikmet flower spring two The strangest of our powers Naz?m Hikmet knowing-nothing dies knowing 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. Naz?m Hikmet rocks battle together The life of man is long, perhaps longer than necessary Or perhaps it is shorter than necessary? Naz?m Hikmet men life long Welcome baby it's your turn to live they're laying for you chicken pox whooping cough smallpox malaria TB heart disease cancer and so on unemployment hunger and so on train wrecks bus accidents plane crashes on-the-job injuries earthquakes floods droughts and so on heartbreak alcoholism and so on nightsticks prisons doors and so on they're laying for you the atom bomb and so on welcome baby it's your turn to live they're laying for you socialism communism and so on. Naz?m Hikmet cancer baby jobs Loneliness feels like prison. Naz?m Hikmet prison loneliness feels 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. Naz?m Hikmet squirrels laughing mean My country or the stars Or my youth, what's farthest? Naz?m Hikmet youth stars country I'm only seven, although I died In Hiroshima long ago, I'm seven now as I was then - When children die, they do not grow. Naz?m Hikmet seven long-ago children At eighteen you sleep without memories. Naz?m Hikmet eighteen sleep memories At eighteen the heart shoots like a pebble from a slingshot and the head doesn't sit on the shoulder. Naz?m Hikmet pebbles slingshots heart At eighteen you don't think about memories, you tell them. Naz?m Hikmet eighteen memories thinking We can only reach our goal amid bloodletting Naz?m Hikmet bloodletting goal 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. Naz?m Hikmet fighting children world And don't forget, a prisoner's wife must always think good thoughts. Naz?m Hikmet wife forget thinking Similar Authors Abdellatif Laabi poet Ihara Saikaku poet Abram Joseph Ryan poet Ingeborg Bachmann poet Izumi Shikibu poet Bion of Smyrna poet All Authors
