Who is Nazim Hikmet
Nâzım Hikmet Ran (15 January 1902 – 3 June 1963), commonly known as Nâzım Hikmet (Turkish: [naːˈzɯm hicˈmet] (listen)), was a Turkish-Polish poet, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, director and memoirist. He was acclaimed for the "lyrical flow of his statements". Described as a "romantic communist" and "romantic revolutionary", 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 fifty languages.Family
According to Nâzım Hikmet, he was of paternal Turkish and maternal German, Polish, Georgian descent. Nâzım Hikmet's mother came from a distinguished, cosmopolitan family with predominantly Circassian (Adyghe) roots, along with high social position an...
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Nazim Hikmet Poems
- Lion In An Iron Cage
Look at the lion in the iron cage,
look deep into his eyes:
like two naked steel daggers
they sparkle with anger. ... - Regarding Art
Sometimes, I, too, tell the ah's
of my heart one by one
like the blood-red beads
of a ruby rosary strung ... - Our Eyes
Our eyes
are limpid
drops of water.
In each drop exists ... - You
You are my enslavement and my freedom
You are my flesh burning like a raw summer night
You are my country
You are the green silks in hazel eyes ... - Gioconda And Si-ya-u
to the memory of my friend SI-YA-U,
whose head was cut off in Shanghai
A CLAIM ...
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Baggiejohn: enjoying reading nazim hikmet againAfsartelugu: 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. - nazim hikmet
Mesale_54: separation isn’t time or distance it’s the bridge between us finer than silk thread sharper than swords nazım hikmet
Sadiais10212270: the most beautiful sea: hasn't been crossed yet. the most beautiful child: hasn't grown up yet. our most beautiful days: we haven't seen yet. and the most beautiful words i wanted to tell you i haven't said yet... [a beautiful poem by nazim hikmet]
Dangerousdavexx: i'm only seven although i died in hiroshima long ago ... the byrds
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Rami Maroun: ”You'll put your foot down and live. to spite the enemy. Part of you may live alone inside, like a tone at the bottom of a well”.
This quote states that even those in liking of something unusual have the right to some freedoms. They have the freedoms of choosing whether they give up hope, or of choosing if they eat or become sick, or choosing discolored they behave or not.
