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Pablo Picasso’s sketch of a nude man that he did at age eight is remarkable. The painting he did at age fourteen of a Catholic communion ceremony is very realistic. But later, after the shock of his best friend’s suicide, he created
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“I had no one to help me, but the T. S. Eliot helped me.
So when people say that poetry is a luxury, or an option, or for the educated middle classes, or that it shouldn’t be read at school because it is irrelevant, or any of the strange stupid things that are said about poetry and its place in our lives, I suspect that the people doing the saying have had things pretty easy. A tough life needs a tough language – and that is what poetry is. That is what literature offers – a language powerful enough to say how it is.
It isn’t a hiding place. It is a finding place.”
― Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
So when people say that poetry is a luxury, or an option, or for the educated middle classes, or that it shouldn’t be read at school because it is irrelevant, or any of the strange stupid things that are said about poetry and its place in our lives, I suspect that the people doing the saying have had things pretty easy. A tough life needs a tough language – and that is what poetry is. That is what literature offers – a language powerful enough to say how it is.
It isn’t a hiding place. It is a finding place.”
― Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
“Bir gün bir postanede rastlaşmış iki insanın birbirlerinden alabildiğine hoşlanmış olmaları güzel geçici bir rastlantı mı yalnızca? “Birine rastlamış, sevmiş, tad almıştım, şimdi geçti, hiçbir iz kalmadı bende.” denebiliyorsa, bu rastlantıyı unutmak, hiç olmamış saymak gerekmez mi? Benim sana, senin bana verdiğimiz yalnızca bir adsa, bu alışveriş niçin bir “Hadi eyvallah!”la bitmesin? Ben yalnızca senin için güzel olacaksam, sana beğendirmek için kendimi, olanları umursamayıp en güzel bakışımla geleceksem yatağına, sen bütün bunları unutturacaksan bana, unutturmak için hiç bakmayacaksan pencereden, o kısa unutma anından sonra, vücutlarımızın bize acı veren gerginliğini giderdikten sonra bu pencereyi kapatarak unuttuğumuz, dışında, uzağında kaldığımız dünya nasıl yabancımız olursa, öyle yabancı oluruz birbirimize. Bir kısa anın ardından ayrı yönlere giden trenlere bineriz. Ya da o trenlere bile yetişemeyip tükenmişin üstünde çoğalırız.”
― Yürümek
― Yürümek
“I think now that being free is not being powerful or rich or well regarded or without obligation but being able to love. To love someone else enough to forget about yourself even for one moment is to be free.”
― The Passion
― The Passion
“People don’t see things and hear things as objectively as they might think. The visual and auditory information that enters the mind is distorted by experiences, thoughts, circumstances, wild fancies, prejudices, preferences, knowledge, awareness, and countless other workings of the mind.”
― Before the Coffee Gets Cold
― Before the Coffee Gets Cold
“Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. What then kills love? Only this: Neglect. Not to see you when you stand before me. Not to think of you in the little things. Not to make the road wide for you, the table spread for you. To choose you out of habit not desire, to pass the flower seller without a thought. To leave the dishes unwashed, the bed unmade, to ignore you in the mornings, make use of you at night. To crave another while pecking your cheek. To say your name without hearing it, to assume it is mine to call.”
― Written on the Body
― Written on the Body
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