Nâzım Hikmet
Turkish poet and playwright
Date of Birth | : | 15 Jan, 1902 |
Date of Death | : | 03 Jun, 1963 |
Place of Birth | : | Thessaloniki, Greece |
Profession | : | Turkish Poet And Playwright |
Nationality | : | Turkish |
Mehmed Nâzım Ran commonly known as Nâzım Hikmet was a Turkish poet, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, director, and memoirist. He was acclaimed for the "lyrical flow of his statements".Described as a "romantic communist" and a "romantic revolutionary",[5][page needed] he was repeatedly arrested for his political beliefs and spent much of his adult life in prison or in exile. His poetry has been translated into more than 50 languages.
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Total 20 Quotes
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.
We can only reach our goal amid bloodletting
The life of man is long, perhaps longer than necessary Or perhaps it is shorter than necessary?
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.
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.
At eighteen you don't think about memories, you tell them.
At eighteen the heart shoots like a pebble from a slingshot and the head doesn't sit on the shoulder.
don't forget, a prisoner's wife must always think good thoughts.
At eighteen you sleep without memories.
And the most beautiful words ever spoken, I have not yet said to you.