A person can gaze at the sky for hours Can gaze for hours a… - Ataol Behramoğlu

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A person can gaze at the sky for hours Can gaze for hours at a bird, a child, the sea To live on the earth is to become part of it To strike down roots that won't pull free

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Ataol Behramoğlu (born 13 April 1942) is a Turkish poet, author, translator and columnist.

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"I've Learned Some Things" ["Yaşadıklarımdan Öğrendiğim Bir Şey Var"] (1977)

Writing poems is perhaps the loveliest deception Later they'll make a picture or something, then go and drink wine

I want to write poetry, I'm bored, disgusted by my habits If I stop thinking and put my hands down perhaps I will have much to say I'm scurrying to the attic like a solitary bug Before you become old and ugly, I must kiss you on the nose

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