Naz?m Hikmet
That's how it goes, my friend. The problem is not falling a captive, it's how to avoid surrender.Collection: Fall
We'll dive into the earth together. And if one day a wild flower finds water and springs up from that piece of earth, its stem will have two blooms for sure: one will be you, the other me.Collection: Spring
Loneliness feels like prison.Collection: Loneliness
My country or the stars Or my youth, what's farthest?Collection: Country
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.Collection: Stars
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.Collection: Rocks
We can only reach our goal amid bloodlettingCollection: Goal
The life of man is long, perhaps longer than necessary Or perhaps it is shorter than necessary?Collection: Life
I'm only seven, although I died In Hiroshima long ago, I'm seven now as I was then - When children die, they do not grow.Collection: Children
Welcome baby it's your turn to live they're laying for you chicken pox whooping cough smallpox malaria TB heart disease cancer and so on unemployment hunger and so on train wrecks bus accidents plane crashes on-the-job injuries earthquakes floods droughts and so on heartbreak alcoholism and so on nightsticks prisons doors and so on they're laying for you the atom bomb and so on welcome baby it's your turn to live they're laying for you socialism communism and so on.Collection: Baby
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.Collection: Children
At eighteen you don't think about memories, you tell them.Collection: Memories
At eighteen the heart shoots like a pebble from a slingshot and the head doesn't sit on the shoulder.Collection: Heart
At eighteen you sleep without memories.Collection: Memories