Never mind the stillness -the deep sleeps to
Nzm Hikmet, Poems of Nazm Hikmet.
“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 f...”
“Most animals are like people-and like good people”
“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 doe...”
“The strangest of our powersIs the courage to liveKnowing that we will die,Knowing nothing more”
“My head bows before the thing you mention.But my heart doesn't speak that lan”
“The beeches deep in snow,I walk the dark woodsIn sorrow, sorrow.Your hand, where is your”
“How many shots had to be fired to turn this child back to his home and anxious mother?”
“We are not subjects of a State founded upon law, but members of a society founded upon revolution. Revolution is our obligation: our hope of evolution. The Revolution is in the individual spirit, o...”
“To be out of touch with a society in which women have internalized their subjugation is an admirable thing.”
“There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.”
“Time is more complex near the sea than in any other place, for in addition to the circling of the sun and the turning of the seasons, the waves beat out the passage of time on the rocks and the tid...”
“And slowly, infinitely slowly, he began to trust. Not the sea, from from it; no one should make that mistake!”