Quotes From "Poems Of Nazam Hikmet" By

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My head bows before the thing you mention. But my heart doesn't speak that lan Unknown
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Believe in seeds, earth, and the sea, but in people above all. Love clouds, machines, and books, but people above all. Grievefor the withering branch, the dying star, and the hurt animal, but feel for people above all. Rejoice in all the earth's blessings-darkness and light, the four seasons, but people abov Unknown
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Most animals are like people-and like good people Unknown
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The strangest of our powers Is the courage to live Knowing that we will die, Knowing nothing more Unknown
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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 d Unknown
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The beeches deep in snow, I walk the dark woods In sorrow, sorrow. Your hand, where is your Unknown
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I like the sound of rain more than my Unknown
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Never mind the stillness -the deep sleeps to Unknown
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I can't promise to becalm, dignified, and indifferent, like a rock by the sea... If my heart's going to break, let it break from anger, grief, or Unknown
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The cloth cap on my headdoesn't tellwhat's in it. Unknown
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Haven't you ever thought of livingunconsciously like bears, sniffing the earth, close to pears and the mossy dark, far from human voices and Unknown
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The worstis when people - knowingly or not -carry prison inside thems Unknown