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"Is the truth of tablecloths to be spread? How awful always to take refuge in known words A person should let himself go."
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Ataol BehramoğluIve learned some things from having lived: — Ataol Behramoğlu
"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"
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Ataol Behramoğlu
Ataol Behramoğlu
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Ataol Behramoğlu is a prominent Turkish poet, author, and Russian-into-Turkish literary translator.
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"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"
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"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."
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"They were eyes, that while gazing on the world Rendered it brilliant with meaning They were eyes, that embraced me with glances They were eyes, for which I now hopelessly long"
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"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 wont pull free"
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"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"
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