30 Quotes by Nazım Hikmet

And the most beautiful words ever spoken, I have not yet said to you.

I like the sound of rain more than my voice.- Windows

Separation isn’t time or distanceit’s the bridge between usfiner than silk thread sharper than swords

Haven't you ever thought of livingunconsciously like bears, sniffing the earth,close to pears and the mossy dark,far from human voices and fire?- On İbrahim Balaban's Painting "Spring"

Most animals are like people-and like good people, too.- Elegy for Satan (a dog)

Memedin ayağında yarım çarıklar.Memet yüzükoyun yatmış sayıklar.Memet beygir fışkısından arpa ayıklar.Arpayı götürüp derede yıkar.Güneşte kurutup yiyecek Memet.

Fakat sayısı çoğaldıkça ölülerin facia-değerleri düşer. (s. 162)

The life-loving, smart,good-hearted deaddon't want forty days of mourningor say, "After me the deluge!"Leaving behind some helpful things- a few words, a tree, a smile -each gets up and goesand does not burden the livingwith the darkness of the tomb,carrying the weightof his stone all alone.And because they ask for nothingfrom the living, it's as if they aren't dead...- Conversation with Dead Nezval

The strangest of our powersIs the courage to liveKnowing that we will die,Knowing nothing more true. - In the Snowy Night Woods