Chairil Anwar's most famous lines (with the poem)
The top 3 according to 14 votes from people: I want to live another thousand years · This time no one is looking for love / among the warehouses, old houses, in the tales / of masts and ropes. · I do not mean to share a fate: / fate is each one's own solitude.. (Updated Jul 31, 2023.)
"I am a wild beast", "I want to live another thousand years" and "Life is only postponing defeat": lines by the pioneer of the Generation of '45, who died aged 26 (1922–1949), learned by schoolchildren all over Indonesia, with the title and year of each poem.
Automatically translated (original in Bahasa Indonesia). See the original
Top 12
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1
I want to live another thousand years
Poem "Me" (1943).
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2
This time no one is looking for love / among the warehouses, old houses, in the tales / of masts and ropes.
Poem "Twilight at a Little Harbour" (1946).
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3
I do not mean to share a fate: / fate is each one's own solitude.
Poem "Notification" (1946).
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4
I am a wild beast / cast out from the herd
Poem "Me" (1943).
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5
Let bullets pierce my skin, / I will keep raging and charging
Poem "Me" (1943).
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6
Life is only postponing defeat
Poem "Rustling Pines" (1949).
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7
To matter once, / and after that, to die
Poem "Diponegoro" (1943).
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8
We who now lie between Krawang and Bekasi / can no longer shout "Freedom" and take up arms
Poem "Krawang-Bekasi" (1948).
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9
My Lord, / in my bewilderment / I still call Your name
Poem "Prayer" (1943).
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10
In the black of your eyes, roses and jasmine; / the scent of your hair ripples, playing.
Poem "White Poem" (1944).
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11
My love is far away on an island, / a sweet girl, idling now alone.
Poem "My Love on a Faraway Island" (1946).
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12
Come on! Bung Karno, give me your hand, let us make a pact
Poem "Agreement with Bung Karno" (1948).
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