“The most beautiful sea hasn't been crossed yet.”

— Nazim Hikmet · Courage quote

Poet · 1902 – 1963

Turkish poet often called the 'romantic revolutionary'; imprisoned for his politics, he wrote some of Turkish literature's most loved poems.

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He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever.

At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom.

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.

It was patriotism, not communism, that inspired me.