I've learned some things from having lived: If you're alive, experience one thing with all your power Your beloved should be worn out from being kiss… - Ataol Behramoğlu

I'd make me into a brand new sailor if I were God Maybe there were new things over there It comes from within me to write as though rabid, I'm hungry, do you understand Let the doctors call it what they will Who can know anything best of all What does it mean to know anything best Which religion doesn't grow old

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

Once more in that hour of darkness In dark black waters they arise Dark songs pass before their eyes They lie awake gazing into darkness