Cemal Süreya's most beautiful lines
The top 3 according to 8 votes from people: Kiss me, then give birth to me. · You are beautiful, my love, / but only up close! · On the day freedom comes, / dying is forbidden that day!. (Updated Jun 2, 2022.)
"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.
Automatically translated (original in Türkçe). See the original
Top 11
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Kiss me, then give birth to me.
Sevda Sözleri (collected poems), section "Sevda Sözleri".
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You are beautiful, my love, / but only up close!
Sevda Sözleri (collected poems), section "Uçurumda Açan".
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On the day freedom comes, / dying is forbidden that day!
Sevda Sözleri (collected poems), section "Üçbin Yaprak Yüzbin İpek Böceği".
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I am dying, God. / So this happened too. / … / But this life you are taking / was not bad. / Keep the change.
Sevda Sözleri (collected poems), section "Poems left in magazines".
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Those alive in the world love each other; / we were left with our dying.
Sevda Sözleri (collected poems), section "Üvercinka".
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Every death is an early death, / I know, God.
Sevda Sözleri (collected poems), section "Poems left in magazines".
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two things: love and poetry; / one feeds on unhappiness, / the other turns into it.
Sevda Sözleri (collected poems), section "Üçbin Yaprak Yüzbin İpek Böceği".
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We were sitting in the moonlight; / I kissed you on the wrist.
Sevda Sözleri (collected poems), section "Üçbin Yaprak Yüzbin İpek Böceği".
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9
You grew up / amid three constitutions: / one acacia, / one rose, / one oleander.
Sevda Sözleri (collected poems), section "A Short History of Turkey".
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10
The first three cigarettes of his life / that Yakup Cemil smoked one after another / just before he was shot.
Sevda Sözleri (collected poems), section "Sıcak Nal".
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11
What matters in poetry is not storytelling but the "poetic charge" built between words.
From his writings on poetry.
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