Poetry Quote by Nazım Hikmet — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Blood was its Avatar and its seal.”

“This is how we dreamed. Moonlight in our mouths, love on our lips and summer in our skies.”

“I have a lot of work to do today;”

“Before getting translated, a poem already gets shrunk or expanded within the ‘sphere of intellect’ of the translator in the original language, and it again gets shrunk or expanded within the ‘sphere of intellect’ of the translator in the target language. Thus, in translation of poetry; there exists a possibility of components like imagination, art of wordplay, skill of constructing internal rhythm and expand of knowledge of the poet getting affected by the constraint and differentia of the translator.”

“After Your Death”

“Between my finger and my thumb”