Quotes from Naz?m Hikmet

And don't forget, a prisoner's wife must always think good thoughts.

Separation isnt time or distance its the bridge between us finer than silk thread sharper than swords

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.

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.

The life of man is long, perhaps longer than necessary Or perhaps it is shorter than necessary?

The strangest of our powers Is the courage to live Knowing that we will die, Knowing nothing more true.