Top Ten Best Nâzım Hikmet (Nazim Hikmet) Quotes & Written Works
Nâzım Hikmet was amongst the most widely regarded & popular Turkish poet and dramatist in the West & his works have been translated to various languages.The Top Ten
1 It's this way: being captured is beside the point, the point is not to surrender.
2 The strangest of our powers Is the courage to live Knowing that we will die, Knowing nothing more true.
3 You're my bondage and my freedom, my flesh burning like a naked summer night, you're my country. Hazel eyes marbled green, you're awesome, beautiful, and brave, you're my desire always just out of reach.
4 You may proclaim that one must live not as a tool,a number or a link but as a human being-then at once they handcuff your wrists.You are free to be arrested,imprisoned & even hanged..there's no need to choose freedom:you are free.
5 Separation isn't time or distance it's the bridge between us, finer than silk thread, sharper than swords
6 You waste the attention of your eyes,the glittering labour of your hands,& knead the dough enough for dozens of loaves of which you'll taste not a morsel;you are free to slave for others-you are free to make the rich richer.
7 The moment you're born they plant around you mills that grind lies,lies to last you a lifetime..you're free with the freedom of being unemployed..But one day,for example,they may endorse it over to America,and you,too,with your great freedom
8 My country or the stars Or my youth, what's farthest?
9 The world's not run by governments or money but people rule a hundred years from now maybe but it will be for sure.
10 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.
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