To your utmost, listen to every beautiful song As though fi… - Ataol Behramoğlu

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To your utmost, listen to every beautiful song As though filling all the self with sound and melody One should plunge head-first into life As one dives from a cliff into the emerald sea

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

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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

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

They were eyes, that while gazing on the world Rendered it brilliant with meaning They were eyes, that embraced me with glances They were eyes, for which I now hopelessly long

To your utmost, listen to every beautiful song As though filling all the self with sound and melody One should plunge head-first into life As one div… - Ataol Behramoğlu

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