Quotes by Nazim Hikmet

“…and the most beautiful words ever spoken, I have not yet said to you.”

moonlight the falsest the most languid the most petit-bourgeoisstrikes meI like it

the train plunges on through the pitch-black nightI never knew I liked the night pitch-blacksparks fly from the engineI didnt know I loved sparksI didnt know I loved so many things and I had to wait until sixty to find it out sitting by the window on the Prague-Berlin train watching the world disappear as if on a journey of no return

Living is no laughing matter: you must live with great seriousness like a squirrel for example - I mean without looking for something beyond and above living, I mean living must be your whole occupation.