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More Quotes by Nâzım Hikmet
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.
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.
At eighteen you sleep without memories.
At eighteen the heart shoots like a pebble from a slingshot and the head doesn't sit on the shoulder.
My country or the stars Or my youth, what's farthest?
And the most beautiful words ever spoken, I have not yet said to you.
The most beautiful sea hasn't been crossed yet. The most beautiful child hasn't grown up yet. The most beautiful days we haven't seen yet. And the most beautiful words I wanted to tell you I haven't said yet.
The strangest of our powers Is the courage to live Knowing that we will die, Knowing nothing more true.
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.
We can only reach our goal amid bloodletting