# Cemal Süreya's most beautiful lines

"Kiss me, then give birth to me", "You are beautiful, my love, but only up close" and "Keep the change": the most shared lines by Cemal Süreya (1931–1990), the love poet of Turkey's Second New movement, with their place in his collected poems, Sevda Sözleri.

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- Jun 2, 2022 · inkandpaper_antalya
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## Top 11

1. **Kiss me, then give birth to me.** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Sevda Sözleri (collected poems), section "Sevda Sözleri".
2. **You are beautiful, my love, / but only up close!** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Sevda Sözleri (collected poems), section "Uçurumda Açan".
3. **On the day freedom comes, / dying is forbidden that day!** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Sevda Sözleri (collected poems), section "Üçbin Yaprak Yüzbin İpek Böceği".
4. **I am dying, God. / So this happened too. / … / But this life you are taking / was not bad. / Keep the change.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Sevda Sözleri (collected poems), section "Poems left in magazines".
5. **Those alive in the world love each other; / we were left with our dying.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Sevda Sözleri (collected poems), section "Üvercinka".
6. **Every death is an early death, / I know, God.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Sevda Sözleri (collected poems), section "Poems left in magazines".
7. **two things: love and poetry; / one feeds on unhappiness, / the other turns into it.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Sevda Sözleri (collected poems), section "Üçbin Yaprak Yüzbin İpek Böceği".
8. **We were sitting in the moonlight; / I kissed you on the wrist.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Sevda Sözleri (collected poems), section "Üçbin Yaprak Yüzbin İpek Böceği".
9. **You grew up / amid three constitutions: / one acacia, / one rose, / one oleander.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Sevda Sözleri (collected poems), section "A Short History of Turkey".
10. **The first three cigarettes of his life / that Yakup Cemil smoked one after another / just before he was shot.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Sevda Sözleri (collected poems), section "Sıcak Nal".
11. **What matters in poetry is not storytelling but the "poetic charge" built between words.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — From his writings on poetry.

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