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"To your utmost, listen to every beautiful song As though filling all the self with sound and melody One should plunge head-first into life As one dives from a cliff into the emerald sea"
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Ataol Behramoğlu"I do not remember any other term when the force that had captured the political power in this country had become so vulgar as it is today, so corrupt, and so hypocritical; when the legal system had been so downtrodden, deteriorated, collapsed and turned into a means of cruelty."
Ataol Behramoğlu is a prominent Turkish poet, author, and Russian-into-Turkish literary translator.
"To your utmost, listen to every beautiful song As though filling all the self with sound and melody One should plunge head-first into life As one dives from a cliff into the emerald sea"
"Distant lands should draw you, people you dont know To read every book, know others lives, you should be burning You shouldnt exchange for anything the pleasure of a glass of water No matter how much the joy, your life should be filled with yearning"
"In the most affirming places of their love Suddenly they grew tired, out of breath Little by little they felt the death Of some places left in darkness"
"Ive learned some things from having lived: If youre alive, experience one thing with all your power Your beloved should be worn out from being kissed And you should drop exhausted from the smelling of a flower"
"Once more in that hour of darkness In dark black waters they arise Dark songs pass before their eyes They lie awake gazing into darkness"
"Is the truth of tablecloths to be spread? How awful always to take refuge in known words A person should let himself go."